To access the SAS ODBC Driver dialog boxes, complete
these steps:
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Access
the Windows Control Panel by selecting
Start
SettingsControl Panel.
Find the
ODBC Data Sources or ODBC Administrator icon. This icon might be located
in the Control Panel group, an ODBC group, or in the Administrative
Tools group. If you have installed a package of other ODBC drivers,
this icon might be in a group that is associated with that package.
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Double-click the icon. Depending on the version of
ODBC Administrator that you have installed, you might see a slight
variation in the following dialog box:
ODBC Data Source Administrator Dialog Box
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To add a new data source, select either the
User DSN tab or the
System DSN tab, and click
Add. The
Create
New Data Source dialog box appears.
Create New Data Source Dialog Box
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To select
the SAS ODBC Driver, scroll down the list of installed ODBC drivers
(if necessary) and select
SAS. Click
Finish.
Note: Select
SAS even if you are going to use a SAS data view to
access data that is not SAS. The SAS Table Server option is deprecated.
The
SAS ODBC Driver Configuration dialog box appears.
SAS ODBC Driver Configuration Dialog Box
At the
top of this dialog box are three tabs:
General,
Servers, and
Libraries. On each tab, provide information about the data source that you
want to access.
For more
information about connecting to data sources, see the following topics:
