When you first access the
SAS ODBC Driver
Configuration dialog box, the
General page is in the foreground. Use the
General page for the following reasons:
-
provide the Data Source Name that
you use in your ODBC application
-
provide a description of the data
in the data source
-
select a server from the
Server field to associate the Data Source Name with
a server
-
configure the number of records
to buffer
-
provide a name for
the data source that you want to access. The name must begin with
a letter, and it cannot contain commas, semicolons, or any of the
following special characters: [ ] { } ( ) ? * = ! @. For example, if you are defining SAS data that is stored on a machine
named Cicero, you might call your data source SAS_Cicero. If you or
other users are concerned only with the type of data (or with the
type of application that uses that data), and not with where the data
is stored, then you might have data sources with names like Finance
or Payroll.
provide a description
of the data source. Providing a description is optional.
a menu from which you
can select a defined server. The first time you set up a data source,
the menu is empty. Define one or more servers, and then come back
to the General page to make a selection.
You must specify a server for every data source.
provide the number
of rows to request from the SAS/SHARE server in a single transmission.
The default value is 100 and the maximum value is 32,000.
The size of the server's
transmission buffer limits the actual number of rows returned. Usually
you do not change the default value. However, specifying a larger
value might improve performance when you retrieve a very large result
set.