• By registering tables that exist in local databases. Register the names of existing tables in your distributed database using the register as link statement.

• By creating new tables at the Ingres Star level, which automatically registers them in your distributed database. When you are connected to the Star Server and create a new table with the create table statement, you create a table locally and register its name in your distributed database.

• By creating new tables in local databases at the local level and then registering these new tables in your distributed database.