Controls what percentage of index segments to identify as candidate segments before processing the WHERE expression. This occurs when evaluating a WHERE expression that contains indexed variables.
Valid in: | Configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, System Options window |
Category: | System administration: Performance |
Default: | 75 |
Engine: | SPD Engine only |
specifies an upper limit for the percentage of index segments that the SPD Engine identifies as containing the value referenced in the WHERE expression. The default is 75, which specifies for the SPD Engine to do the following:
options maxsegratio=65;
options maxsegratio=0;
options maxsegratio=100;