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+Apache Flink supports creating Iceberg table directly without creating the explicit Flink catalog in Flink SQL. That means we can just create an iceberg table by specifying `'connector'='iceberg'` table option in Flink SQL which is similar to usage in the Flink official [document](https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-release-1.13/docs/connectors/table/overview/).
+
+In Flink, the SQL `CREATE TABLE test (..) WITH ('connector'='iceberg', ...)` will create an Flink table in current Flink catalog (use [GenericInMemoryCatalog](https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.13/docs/dev/table/catalogs/#genericinmemorycatalog) by default),
+which is just mapping to the underlying iceberg table instead of maintaining iceberg table directly in current Flink catalog.
+
+To create the table in Flink SQL by using SQL syntax `CREATE TABLE test (..) WITH ('connector'='iceberg', ...)`,  Flink iceberg connector provides the following table properties:
+
+* `connector`: Use the constant `iceberg`.
+* `catalog-name`: User-specified catalog name. It's required because the connector don't have any default value.
+* `catalog-type`: Default to use `hive` if don't specify any value. The optional values are:
+    * `hive`: The Hive metastore catalog.
+    * `hadoop`: The hadoop catalog.
+    * `custom`: The customized catalog, see [custom catalog](./custom-catalog.md) for more details.
+* `catalog-database`: The iceberg database name in the backend catalog, use the current flink database name by default.
+* `catalog-table`: The iceberg table name in the backend catalog. Default to use the table name in the flink `CREATE TABLE` sentence.
+
+## Table managed in Hive catalog.
+
+Before executing the following SQL, please make sure you've configured the Flink SQL client correctly according to the quick start [document](./flink.md).
+
+The following SQL will create an Flink table in the current Flink catalog, which maps to the iceberg table `default_database.iceberg_table` managed in iceberg catalog.
+
+```sql
+CREATE TABLE flink_table (
+    id   BIGINT,
+    data STRING
+) WITH (
+    'connector'='iceberg',
+    'catalog-name'='hive_prod',
+    'uri'='thrift://localhost:9083',
+    'warehouse'='hdfs://nn:8020/path/to/warehouse'
+);
+```
+
+If you want to create a Flink table mapping to a different iceberg table managed in Hive catalog (such as `hive_db.hive_iceberg_table` in Hive), then you can create Flink table as following:
+
+```sql
+CREATE TABLE flink_table (
+    id   BIGINT,
+    data STRING
+) WITH (
+    'connector'='iceberg',
+    'catalog-name'='hive_prod',
+    'catalog-database'='hive_db',
+    'catalog-table'='hive_iceberg_table',
+    'uri'='thrift://localhost:9083',
+    'warehouse'='hdfs://nn:8020/path/to/warehouse'
+);
+```
+
+!!! Note
+    The underlying catalog database (`hive_db` in the above example) will be created automatically if it does not exist when writing records into the Flink table.
+
+## Table managed in hadoop catalog
+
+The following SQL will create a Flink table in current Flink catalog, which maps to the iceberg table `default_database.flink_table` managed in hadoop catalog.
+
+```sql
+CREATE TABLE flink_table (
+    id   BIGINT,
+    data STRING
+) WITH (
+    'connector'='iceberg',
+    'catalog-name'='hadoop_prod',
+    'catalog-type'='hadoop',
+    'warehouse'='hdfs://nn:8020/path/to/warehouse'
+);
+```
+
+## Table managed in custom catalog
+
+The following SQL will create a Flink table in current Flink catalog, which maps to the iceberg table `default_database.flink_table` managed in custom catalog.
+
+```sql
+CREATE TABLE flink_table (
+    id   BIGINT,
+    data STRING
+) WITH (
+    'connector'='iceberg',
+    'catalog-name'='custom_prod',
+    'catalog-type'='custom',
+    'catalog-impl'='com.my.custom.CatalogImpl',
+     -- More table properties for the customized catalog
+    'my-additional-catalog-config'='my-value',
+     ...
+);
+```
+
+Please check sections under the Integrations tab for all custom catalogs.
+
+## A complete example.
+
+Take the Hive catalog as an example:
+
+```sql
+CREATE TABLE flink_table (
+    id   BIGINT,
+    data STRING
+) WITH (
+    'connector'='iceberg',
+    'catalog-name'='hive_prod',
+    'uri'='thrift://localhost:9083',
+    'warehouse'='file:///path/to/warehouse'
+);
+
+INSERT INTO flink_table VALUES (1, 'AAA'), (2, 'BBB'), (3, 'CCC');
+
+SET execution.result-mode=tableau;
+SELECT * FROM flink_table;
+
++----+------+
+| id | data |
++----+------+
+|  1 |  AAA |
+|  2 |  BBB |
+|  3 |  CCC |
++----+------+
+3 rows in set
+```
+
+For more details, please refer to the Iceberg [Flink document](./flink.md).

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       - Maintenance Procedures: spark-procedures.md
       - Structured Streaming: spark-structured-streaming.md
       - Time Travel: spark-queries/#time-travel
-    - Flink: flink.md
+    - Flink:
+      - Getting Started: flink.md
+      - Flink Connector: flink-connector.md
     - Hive: hive.md
     - Trino: https://trino.io/docs/current/connector/iceberg.html
     - PrestoDB: https://prestodb.io/docs/current/connector/iceberg.html