SAS/ACCESS Interface to SYSTEM 2000 Data Management Software: Reference

Introduction

To use the SAS/ACCESS interface to SYSTEM 2000 software, you must define special files that describe the SYSTEM 2000 database and data to the SAS System. These files are called SAS/ACCESS descriptor files. This chapter is a tutorial and uses examples to illustrate creating these files. (For complete reference information on the ACCESS procedure, see ACCESS Procedure Reference.)

The examples are based on the SYSTEM 2000 database named EMPLOYEE. (See Example Data to review the definition of the EMPLOYEE database and see the data accessed by the examples.) You create an access descriptor file named MYLIB.EMPLOYE for that database. Then, you create two view descriptor files named VLIB.EMPOS and VLIB.EMPSKIL based on the access descriptor. Before you create these files, though, the next sections provide some background on access and view descriptor files.

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