This can be compared to a foreign key in SQL, where a column in one table refers to the primary key in another table. For example, a “player” table may have a foreign key column called “role_id,” ...

The combination of the primary and foreign key columns and the rules that dictate the data that can be housed in those key columns can be defined to ensure correct and useful relational databases.

The query editor utilizes table and view names, column names, primary key, and foreign key metadata to generate T-SQL code, which the user can then review and execute the code suggestion.

This formal Id column will not end up as a primary key in the same way you might think of a primary key in mainstream SQL database engines. In Microsoft SQL Server, for example, a primary key usually ...

Within the Azure portal query editor, Copilot for Azure SQL Database uses table and view names, column names, primary key, and foreign key metadata to generate T-SQL code.