Difference between Primary Key and Foreign Key

Introduction:

In this article I have explained the difference between Primary key and Foreign Key.  This is most commonly asked in the interview in case of Freshers.

 Primary Key vs Foreign Key. 

I have tried to list all the major differences between Primary Key and Foreign Key.

Primary Key	Foreign Key
A primary key is a column or a set of columns that can be used to uniquely identify a row in a table.	A foreign key is a column(s) in one table that references a unique column usually the primary key of another table. The purpose of the foreign key is to ensure referential integrity of the data. The referenced table is called the parent table while the table with the foreign key is called the child table.
Primary Key can't accept null values.	Foreign key can accept multiple null value.
A table can have a single primary key.	We can have multiple foreign keys in a table that can reference different tables.
Primary Key can’t be duplicate. It means same value cannot be entered in the primary key column.	Foreign key can be duplicated. It means same value can be entered in foreign key column.
By default primary key implicitly creates a clustered index on the column and data in the table is physically organized in the sequence of clustered index.	Foreign key do not automatically create an index (clustered or non-clustered) but we can explicitly create an index on foreign key column.
We can define primary key constraint on temporary table	We can’t define foreign key constraint on temporary table
We can define primary key constraint on table variable	We can't define foreign key constraint on table variable
We can insert a value in primary key column that may or may not be present in child table containing the foreign key.	We can't insert a value in foreign key column that is not present in the primary key column in the referenced parent table.
We can't delete primary key value from the parent table which is used as a foreign key in child table. To delete we first need to delete that primary key value from the child table.	We can delete the foreign key value from the child table even though that refers to the primary key of the parent table.