What Is the Role of a Foreign Key

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Multiple Choice

What is the role of a foreign key?

• A) It is a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables.
• B) It is a unique way to identify each record.
• C) It is a field that uniquely identifies a given record in a table.
• D) All of these.

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