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Designing databasesThe first step in creating a relational database is to construct a data model, which is a precise, complete definition of the data you want to store. After you prepare your data model, you must implement it as a database and tables. To implement your data model, you first select a data type for each column and then you create a database and tables and populate the tables with data. You can also implement fragmentation strategies and control access to your data.
Designing and Implementing a DatabaseThe HCL OneDB™ Database Design and Implementation Guide provides information to help you design, implement, and manage your HCL® OneDB® databases. It includes data models that illustrate different approaches to database design and shows you how to use structured query language (SQL) to implement and manage your databases.
Managing databases
Distributed queries
Syntax of a distributed query
Other remote operations
Create a synonym for a remote table

Create a synonym for a remote table

You can create a synonym for a remote table in another database or a remote table using a qualified name in the CREATE SYNONYM statement. For example, the following statement creates a synonym for rdb@srsys:rtab:

CREATE SYNONYM myrtab FOR rdb@rsys:rtab;

It is possible for a synonym to exist in both the local and remote server. In the previous example, it is possible that rtab is itself a synonym for rdb2@rsys2:rtab2. The chain of synonyms is followed when retrieving catalog information until the physical database and server where the table is located are found. If a synonym ultimately points back to itself, an error is returned.