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  • foreign keys actually has a positive effect in performance considering its effect on inter table select queries using joins. I'm not sure if it has a negative effect though. Commented Apr 11, 2010 at 19:32
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    Heh, three of the top answers to this question are "performance benefit", "no difference", "performance loss". Commented Mar 5, 2013 at 4:15
  • @SteveBennett - Yeah, they are misleading; I added Comments to clarify things. Commented Oct 10, 2023 at 15:52