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Table Relationships

Explore how to create and manage table relationships in SQL using foreign key constraints. Learn to distinguish between one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships to efficiently query multiple tables and maintain data integrity.

A relationship is when one column of one table references another column in a different table. For example, we can have a table called Orders that contains a column ItemId that references the Id column of the Items table.

A table that references another table is called a child table. The table that is being referenced is called a parent table. In our example above, Items is the parent table referenced by the Orders table.

Foreign keys

To create a relationship, we use the concept ...