foreign key

English

Noun

foreign key (plural foreign keys)

(databases) A column (or group of columns) in a relational table that identifies another table, so that items in the two tables can be conceptually linked.

Related terms

Translations

column referencing another table

Chinese:
Mandarin: 外鍵, 外键 (wàijiàn)
Czech: cizí klíč m
Finnish: viiteavain
French: clé étrangère (fr) f
German: Fremdschlüssel m

Japanese: 外部キー (gaibu kī)
Portuguese: chave estrangeira f
Romanian: cheie străină f
Russian: вне́шний ключ m (vnéšnij ključ)
Swedish: främmande nyckel c
Turkish: yabancı anahtar

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