What Are the SAS Drivers for ODBC?

The SAS Drivers for ODBC are implementations of the ODBC interface standard that enable you to access, manipulate, and update SAS data sources from applications that are ODBC compliant. SAS provides a 64-bit driver and a 32-bit driver.

As the following figure shows, a driver uses a SAS server to access data from a SAS data source. The SAS server can be a local and minimized SAS session, a remote SAS/SHARE server, or a SAS Scalable Performance Data 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 Drivers for ODBC enable 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