File server System management computer in a net-work of computers. Typically holds data base files which are accessible by all the computers on the net-work.

Selecting from an external table reads the data from the data file(s) and provides it in the form of rows and columns as if it was read from the normal base table.

To load data from the data file /data/americascust.dat (created above) into the base table customer, use the INSERT statement as follows