Ingres Star lets you access data from multiple databases, linking the information together so that it seems to be in a single database. This single database is referred to in the rest of this guide as the distributed database.

A distributed database does not reside physically on a disk. The actual data is contained in the multiple databases accessed by Ingres Star. These databases are referred to in the rest of this guide as local databases.

A DBMS Server must be running on each computer that has a database you are accessing.

Setting up a distributed database requires you to: