Chapter 33: About SASACCESS Software

Definition of SAS/ACCESS Software

SAS/ACCESS software

allows you to read and write data to and from other vendors ' database management systems (DBMS) , as well as from some PC file formats . Depending on your DBMS, a SAS/ACCESS product might provide one or more of the following:

• a dynamic LIBNAME engine

• the SQL Pass-Through Facility

• the ACCESS procedure and interface view engine

• the DBLOAD procedure

• an interface DATA step engine.

These interfaces are described in this section. Each SAS/ACCESS product provides one or more of these interfaces for each supported DBMS. See Chapter 37, "SAS Engines," on page 601 for more information about SAS engines.

Note  

To use the SAS/ACCESS features described in this section, you must license SAS/ACCESS software. See the SAS/ACCESS documentation for your DBMS for full documentation of the features described in this section.