in a relational database, can we have a table without any relation with the other tables?

database-design, entity-relationship, relational-database, sql

Solution

Yes. The way relations are expressed are with foreign keys. If a table you generate has no Foreign keys, and no foreign keys in other tables point to this table, it has no relationships.

It can still be given a relationship later though so don't worry about shooting yourself in the foot.

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