A FOREIGN KEY is a field (or collection of fields) in one table, that refers to the PRIMARY KEY in another table. The table with the foreign key is called the child table, and the table with the ...

Note that the "P_Id" column in the "Orders" table points to the "P_Id" column in the "Persons" table. In MySQL, the FOREIGN KEY on one table is used to point a PRIMARY KEY in another table. We have ...

Hence, the birth of the MySQL InnoDB vs. MyISAM debate. Of course, MySQL users prior to the 5.5 release were probably perplexed by the assertion that the database didn't support foreign keys. MySQL ...