Github user vasia commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1939#discussion_r61098044
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@@ -67,6 +67,165 @@ The central concept of the Table API is a `Table` which
represents a table with
The following sections show by example how to use the Table API embedded
in the Scala and Java DataSet APIs.
+### Registering Tables to and Accessing Tables from TableEnvironments
+
+`TableEnvironment`s have an internal table catalog to which tables can be
registered with a unique name. After registration, a table can be accessed from
the `TableEnvironment` by its name. Tables can be registered in different ways.
--- End diff --
Shall we add a comment that registering a table is only required for SQL
queries and not for "pure" Table API programs?
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