Unleash the Full Potential of Data Passthru Expression Breaks Down SAS Lock

Using SQL passthru against SPD Server for an UPDATE statement can result in two different messages if the record is locked. ... SQL query, there is no need to pre-sort the data. This program runs ... there isn't an easy way yo do the same thing in SAS. Now, it ... We use the ODBC engine to connect to our SQL server from Windows SAS (libname xxx ODBC...) and it works great...I run PROQ SQL and create a "SAS As database vendors make regular expression functionality more widely available for use in SQL ... SAS Graph procedures available prior to SAS 9.2 version are not ... Only when SQL_FUNCTIONS=ALL can the SAS/ACCESS engine also pass these SAS SQL functions to Oracle. Due to incompatibility in date and time functions between ... If you specify a GROUP BY clause in a query that does not contain a summary function, your ... Efficiencies within specific RDBMS are available with Pass-thru ... PROC SQL does not require aliasing of in-line view table expressions. ... pass-through to receive SAS SQL internal query forms that do not. 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 ... the LowPoint column in the SQL.CONTINENTS table with the words Not Available: ... operators that are not available in other SAS expressions. WHERE expressions ... Selecting this option improves performance,because SAS does not have ... • For example a proc sort may be automatically re-expressed as SQL.