Data Set Options for Relational Databases

BL_ENCODING= Data Set Option

Specifies the character set encoding to use for the external table.

Default value:	DEFAULT
Valid in:	DATA and PROC steps (when accessing DBMS data using SAS/ACCESS software)
DBMS support:	Greenplum

Syntax

BL_ENCODING=character-set-encoding

character-set-encoding: specifies the character set encoding to use for the external table. Specify a string constant (such as 'SQL_ASCII'), an integer-encoding number, or DEFAULT to use the default client encoding.

To specify this option, you must first set BULKLOAD=YES.