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When the values in one or more attributes being used as a foreign key must exist in another set of one or more attributes in another table, we have created a(n):(a) Transitive Dependency(b) Insertion Anomaly(c) Referential Integrity Constraint(d) Normal FormI had been asked this question during an interview.This intriguing question comes from Normalization in portion Planning Oracle Applications of Oracle

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Right answer is (c) Referential INTEGRITY Constraint

For EXPLANATION I WOULD SAY: Referential Integrity is set of constraints applied to foreign key which prevents ENTERING a row in child table for which you don’t have any corresponding row in parent table i.e. entering NULL or invalid foreign keys.



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