child table
In a foreign key relationship, a child table is one whose rows refer (or point) to rows in another table with an identical value for a specific column. The corresponding row in the parent table must exist before the row can be created in the child table. The values in the child table can prevent delete or update operations on the parent table, or can cause automatic deletion or updates in the child table, based on the ON CASCADE option used when creating the foreign key.
See also foreign key.
See also parent table.