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Self-Referencing Tables in database.

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Aforeign key constraint can reference columns within the same table. These tables are called as self-referencing tables. For example, consider a table Employee that contains five columns: Employee_ID, Name, Age, Salary and Manager_ID. Because the manager is also an employee, there is a foreign key relationship between the Manager_ID and Employee_ID as shown below:

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