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A dangling reference can occur in relational database systems when a foreign key refers to a record that doesn't exist anymore or was never created. It can be seen as the database equivalent of a dangling pointer.

Example

If a foreign key to employee #387 is given and no employee with id 387 exists, this is a situation of a dangling reference.

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