The LIBNAME Statement for Relational Databases

DBSASLABEL= LIBNAME Option

Specifies the column labels an engine uses.

Default value:	COMPAT
Valid in:	SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME statement
DBMS support:	Aster nCluster, DB2 under UNIX and PC Hosts, DB2 under z/OS, Greenplum, HP Neoview, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Netezza, ODBC, OLE DB, Oracle, Sybase, Sybase IQ, Teradata

Syntax
Syntax Description
Details
Examples

Syntax

DBSASLABEL=COMPAT | NONE

Syntax Description

COMPAT: specifies that the labels returned should be compatible with what the application normally receives--meaning that engines exhibit their normal behavior.
NONE: specifies that the engine does not return a column label. The engine returns blanks for the column labels.

Details

By default, the SAS/ACCESS interface for your DBMS generates column labels from the column names, rather than from the real column labels.

You can use this option to override the default behavior. It is useful for when PROC SQL uses column labels as headers instead of column aliases.

Examples

The following example demonstrates how DBSASLABEL= is used as a LIBNAME option to return blank column labels so that PROC SQL can use the column aliases as the column headings.

libname x oracle user=scott pw=tiger;
proc sql;
     select deptno as Department ID, loc as Location from mylib.dept(dbsaslabel=none);

Without DBSASLABEL=NONE, aliases would be ignored, and DEPTNO and LOC would be used as column headings in the result set.

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