Processing Data Using Cross-Environment Data Access (CEDA)

Advantages of CEDA

CEDA offers these advantages:

You can transparently process a supported SAS file with no knowledge of the file's data representation or character encoding.
No transport files are created. CEDA requires a single translation between native and foreign representations, rather than a translation from native representation to transport file to native representation.
CEDA eliminates the need to perform explicit steps in order to process the file.
CEDA does not require an explicit sign-on as is needed in SAS/CONNECT or a dedicated server as is needed in SAS/SHARE.