About the Data That Can Be Accessed by Using the SAS Drivers for JDBC

A Base SAS data set is the proprietary file format for SAS software. Data sets contain data values that are organized as a table of observations (rows) and variables (columns). The supported file format is the same as SAS data sets created by the BASE engine Version 7 and higher. A supported SAS data set uses the extension .sas7bdat.

SPD Server data provides performance for very large amounts of data. The data source provides threaded I/O processing, using multiple CPUs in order to read data and deliver it rapidly to applications. Very large files can be processed, because the data can span volumes but is referenced as a single file. The data in the files is also partitioned, which allows the data to be read in multiple threads per CPU.

Third-party relational database management systems (DBMS) data that can be accessed includes DB2 and Oracle.