What Is the SAS ODBC Driver?

The SAS ODBC Driver is an implementation of the ODBC interface standard that enables you to access, manipulate, and update SAS data sources from applications that are ODBC compliant. As the following figure shows, the SAS ODBC Driver uses a SAS server to access data from your SAS data sources. The SAS server can be a local and minimized SAS session or a remote SAS/SHARE server. (For more information, see SAS Servers.) If you use other ODBC drivers (such as an ODBC driver for Oracle or SQL Server) to access other data sources, those ODBC drivers might require additional software components.
Note: To access ODBC data sources from SAS (the opposite of what the SAS ODBC Driver enables you to accomplish), you must license SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC software. For more information, see SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference.
Components of ODBC Functionality
Components of ODBC Functionality
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