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Title should be "Do you really need Foreign Key constraints?". Foreign Key is the field itself, will still be there without the constraint.

• shayonj 3y ago
  Great call!
• LtWorf 3y ago
  And the body should really be "Yes. You do."
• _a_a_a_ 3y ago
  True, a foreign key by itself is just a business requirement. A foreign key constraint is what the database does to enforce that. There's rarely any confusion about the two concepts, though.