Referential integrity

🔴Every foreign key value has a matching value in the corresponding primary key

🔵Referential integrity uses these to prevent the deletion of related records

🔴It can alert if the user tries to delete a record which is related to another one

🔵Queries will begin to fail if the relationships do not match

🔴If a table is relying on the keys in another table, then relationships between the two can be lost if bad data is entered into one location

🔵Referential integrity can be used to ensure foreign key values are valid. 

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