About the SAS Drivers for JDBC: Cookbook

How the Cookbook Can Help You Write Applications

The SAS Drivers for JDBC: Cookbook provides programming recipes for use with the SAS Drivers for JDBC. The recipes are designed to expedite development efforts in these ways:

by providing ready-to-use sample code, as complete programs or as fragments
by encouraging best practices
by answering frequently asked questions

You can use the recipes directly or modify them to fit your needs.

What You Should Know in Order to Use This Cookbook

The cookbook assumes that the following statements are true:

You are familiar with the JDK (Java Development Kit).
You know how to compile and run Java applications.
You are familiar with Sun Microsystems JDBC API documentation, especially the documentation that can be found in these Web locations:
- java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jdbc/
- java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/
- java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/jdbc/
Either you know how to start up the SAS server that you want to access or the server has been started for you.
You are familiar with the information in the following resource:
Fisher, Maydene, Jon Ellis, and Jonathan Bruce. 2003. JDBC API Tutorial and Reference, Third Edition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.