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The Foreign Key
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A foreign key is an attribute referencing a primary key in another relation — the mechanism by which separate tables link, and the relational model's answer to relationships.
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An orders table carrying each customer's identifier holds the thread back to the customer table.
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The reference is the relationship; nothing else stores it.