To access the
SAS ODBC Driver Configuration 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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Scroll down the list
of 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
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:
