The procedure for converting a single server database into a clustered one will be specified later. For 6.0, there is no automatic way of doing this.

One can take an existing database and convert it to clustered operation by copying the initial database to each node of the cluster. Set up the database so that each node would run an identical copy. Then make the cluster.ini files.

Start the servers. Connect to the master and run the partitioning statements for all keys of all tables that are to be managed by the cluster.

At this point, each database will also hold rows that are not its responsibility, unless of course all tables are declared as replicated. The rows that are present and do not fall in the partition managed by the host should be deleted.

This can be done with a stored procedure to be supplied later