| Introduction to the Metadata LIBNAME Engine |
As noted in
Overview of the Metadata LIBNAME Engine,
the metadata engine uses information from metadata to construct a LIBNAME
statement for a SAS library.
When you submit a metadata LIBNAME statement, you assign a libref to
a SASLibrary metadata object. The SASLibrary object is the primary object
from which all other metadata is obtained. The metadata defines attributes
of the data, such as table and column names. The metadata identifies the underlying
engine that processes the data, and how the engine should be assigned.
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