Preparing a Data Management System for Use with SAS Model Manager

SAS Foundation, SAS/ACCESS, and the in-database deployment package for the database must be installed and configured before you can prepare a data management system (database or file system) for use with SAS Model Manager. For more information, see the chapter for your type of database or file system in this guide. Here are the databases and file systems that can be used with SAS Model Manager:

Additional configuration steps are required to prepare a data management system (database or file system) for publishing and scoring in SAS Model Manager if you plan to use the scoring function (MECHANISM=STATIC) publish method or the SAS Embedded Process (MECHANISM=EP) publish method. If you want to store the scoring function metadata tables in the database, then the SAS Model Manager In-Database Scoring Scripts product must be installed before the database administrator (DBA) can prepare a database for use with SAS Model Manager.

During the installation and configuration of SAS 9.4 products, the SAS Model Manager In-Database Scoring Scripts product is installed on the middle-tier server or another server tier if it is included in the custom plan file.

The location of the SAS installation directory is specified by the user. Here is the default installation location for the SAS Model Manager In-Database Scoring Scripts product on a Microsoft Windows server: C:\Program Files\SASHome\SASModelManagerInDatabaseScoringScripts

The script installation directory includes a directory that specifies the version of SAS Model Manager (currently 13.1). The files and subdirectories that are needed to prepare a database for use by SAS Model Manager are located in the version directory. The Utilities subdirectory contains two SQL scripts for each type of database: a Create Tables script and a Drop Tables script. The DBA needs these SQL scripts to create the tables needed by the SAS Model Manager to publish scoring functions.