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The idea behind foreign key in a database is that one table relates to another table. The common example is that you may have a table containing users which has these fields: id: The ID of the user name: The full name of the user email: The email address of the user Then you may have a table with purchases, which links to the user table: id: The ID of the purchase date: The date of the purchase item: The item purchased price: The price of the item user_id: The id of the user Technically, you don’t have to link both tables. You could fill the user_id field with an idea from the users’ table and just assume it’s valid. But adding it as a foreign key just makes sure that the database will enforce that the id actually exists in the other table. This is how you can create the two tables: CREATE TABLE users (id VARCHAR(20) UNIQUE NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(200), email VARCHAR(50)); CREATE TABLE purchases (id VARCHAR(20), date VARCHAR(20), item VARCHAR(50), price BIG