What's New in SAS/ACCESS 9.3 for Relational Databases

Overview

SAS/ACCESS 9.3 for Relational Databases has these new features and enhancements.
  • Updated operating environments for various SAS/ACCESS interfaces
  • New nicknames
  • New function and options for the Teradata interface
  • Documentation enhancements

Operating Environments Updates

Operating environments for specific SAS/ACCESS interfaces have changed.

New Nicknames

These interfaces have new nicknames.
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Aster nCluster: aster
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Greenplum: greenplm
  • SAS/ACCESS Interface to Sybase IQ: sybaseiq

New Function and Options for SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata

These items are new.
  • You can use temporal qualifiers to specify time-dimension criteria for retrieving data from Teradata.
  • You can use table-level definitions to specify where a table is created.

Documentation Enhancements

This document includes these changes.
  • SAS In-Database information is now in the SAS In-Database Products: Adminstrator's Guide and the SAS In-Database Products: User's Guide.
  • For the MySQL interface, you can specify where you want to store query results.