Unleash the True Potential of SAS Break Free from Lock Limitations with SQL Passthru Expressions

Note: SAS procedures that perform multipass processing cannot operate on PROC SQL views that store pass-through facility statements, because the ... ... not with a shared access signature (SAS). In SQL Server 2016 (13.x), TYPE should be set to HADOOP even when accessing Azure Storage ... Using SQL passthru against SPD Server for an UPDATE statement can result in two different messages if the record is locked. 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... SAS waits until rows are available for locking. If you specify LOCKWAIT=NO, SAS does not wait and returns an error to indicate that the lock is not available. I consistently get "A lock is not available" errors when running SAS programs. It usually happens if I perform operations on the same dataset multiple times in ...