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Posted by Jim Michaels on 02/23/06 02:46
"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
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> Tony Peardon wrote:
>> Could some please quickly explain the difference between a foreign key
>> and a
>> reference? Thanks.
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/alter-table.html
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-foreign-key-constraints.html
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>
> //Aho
I think what he's saying is that a foreign key refers to ("REFERENCES") a
primary key. the relationship is the reference if I'm not mistaken.
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