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Referential Integrity Rule in RDBMS
Referential Integrity Rule in DBMS is based on Primary key and Foreign Key. The Rule defines that a foreign key have a matching primary key. Reference from a table to another table should be valid.
Referential Integrity Rule example −
<Employee>
EMP_ID | EMP_NAME | DEPT_ID |
<Department>
DEPT_ID | DEPT_NAME | DEPT_ZONE |
The rule states that the DEPT_ID in the Employee table has a matching valid DEPT_ID in the Department table.
To allow join, the referential integrity rule states that the Primary Key and Foreign Key have same data types.
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