Maximize Data Utilization with SAS SQL Passthru Expressions

SAS script running on host with IP x.x.x.x stops and logs message: ERROR: A lock is not available for FILE.NAME. NOTE: PROC SQL set option ... database interfaces and environments on which they were available in releases of SAS 6. ... Alternatively, the Pass-Through Facility uses PROC SQL to pass SQL ... The SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility enables you to send DBMS-specific SQL statements directly to a DBMS for execution. A SAS user can reference the ODBC connection in a LIBNAME statement to connect to previously configured data sources. More recently, SAS has added an interface ... And SQL pass through query is a SAS coding construction that allows one to write SQL in the native SQL dialect of whatever database has the data ... PATH= specifies an alias for the database specification (as required by SQL*Net). libname mydblib oracle user=testuser password=testpass path=hrdept_002; proc ... You can use PROC SQL explicit pass-through to load server tables. The server SQL statement extensions, LOAD TABLE and COPY TABLE, provide ... they will automatically become available to PROC SQL, to all other SAS procedures ... operators that are not available in other SAS expressions. WHERE expressions ... up 'pass through SQL' in the documentation, or look up ODBC in the. SAS/CONNECT or SAS/ACCESS documentation [I forget which] and see the pass through option ... available in PROC SQL that are unique to SAS, such as the OUTER UNION CORRESPONDING operator. This paper describes scenarios in which valid PROC SQL will not ...