Foreign Keys, Table Relationships, and Multi-Table Queries in MySQL
Foreign Keys
Why Foreign Keys?
Before foreign keys, merging every thing into one table caused issues:
Unclear focus: Hard to separate employee vs. department data.
Redundant storage: Same fields repeated across rows.
Poor scalability: Changing one part affected the whole table.
Solution: Split into multiple tables (e.g., emp and dep) and use ...
Posted on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:27:07 +0000 by marmite