what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?

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what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?..

Answer / anil bharodiya

Primary key is field of the table that can be used to
uniquely identify records of the table

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what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?..

Answer / sripathi venkata ramesh

I am Sripathi Venkata Ramesh from Gudivada and the answer
is mentioned below

Primary key: A Primary key is a column or group of columns
used to uniquely identify each row in a table like
It defines the column as a Mandatory column.
The data held across the column must be unique.
By default it creates clustered index.
It does not allow null values and duplicate values

Foreign key: A Foreign key is a column or group of columns
whose values are derived from the primary key of some other
table

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what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?..

Answer / bharathi sundar

A PRIMARY KEY DOES NOT ACCEDES DUPLICATIONS .
A FOREIGN KEY IS USED FOR LINKING TWO DATABASE TABLES
ABSTRUSELY .

A FOREIGN KEY USES THE PRIMARY KEY IN ANOTHER TABLE,
TO RETRIEVE OR TO IDENTIFY THE CELL VALUES IN ANOTHER
TABLE.........

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what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?..

Answer / o p yadav

primary key is the unique value,but its not nul values..
this kry is avoided dublicate values

foreign key is always references the primary key and allow null value.

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what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?..

Answer / sravan kumar

A attribute which it is uniquely identifies in a row in a
table is called Primary key..


A column in a table whose values matches the primary key in
some other table is called Foreign key

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what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?..

Answer / raja

foriegn key always refers to
primary key but Primary key is unique key

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what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?..

Answer / suneel manne

Primary key is a key it will allow only Unique values and
avoid duplicate values and foreign key is a reference key
from the other table, So here primary key acts as a parent
key and foreign key acts as a child key.

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what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?..

Answer / ibrahim

A primary key is an combination of attributes that uniquely
identifies each row in a relation. A primary key is
designated by underlining the attribute name. The primary
key of an entity set allows us to distinguish among the
various entities of the set.

A foreign key is an attribute in a relation of database
that serves as the primary key of another relation in the
same database.

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what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?..

Answer / kush kaushik

Primary key is primary means from india and foreign key is forgeiner means from forign .. ..By kush kaushik(kush.kaushik87@gmail.com)

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what is the difference between primary key & foreign key?..

Answer / reddy

foreign key is NULL
foreign key reference as Primary key in another table


Primary key is unique
primary key is not NULL and

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