Glossary
- API
-
See application programming interface.
- application
programming interface
-
a set of software functions that facilitate communication
between applications and other kinds of programs or services. Short
form: API.
- data source name
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a name that is associated with a data source definition.
The data source definition specifies how to locate and access a data
source, including any authentication (such as a user name and password)
that a user must supply in order to access the data. Short form:
DSN.
- database
management system
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a software application that enables you to create
and manipulate data that is stored in the form of databases. Short
form: DBMS.
- DBMS
-
See database management system.
- DSN
-
See data source name.
- Integrated
Object Model
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a set of object-based interfaces to features or
services that are provided by Base SAS software. IOM enables application
developers to use industry-standard programming languages, programming
tools, and communication protocols to develop client programs that
access these services on IOM servers. Short form: IOM.
- Integrated
Object Model server
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a SAS object server that is launched in order
to fulfill client requests for IOM services. Short form: IOM server.
- IOM
-
See Integrated Object Model.
- IOM
server
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See Integrated Object Model server.
- JAR
file
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a Java Archive file. The JAR file format is used
for aggregating many files into one file. JAR files have the file
extension .jar.
- Java
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a set of technologies for creating software programs
in both stand-alone environments and networked environments, and for
running those programs safely. Java is a Sun Microsystems trademark.
- Java
class
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in the Java programming language, a definition
of a particular kind of object. A class definition defines instance
variables, class variables, and methods. It also specifies the interfaces
that the class implements and the immediate superclass of the class.
- Java
Database Connectivity
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a standard interface for accessing SQL databases.
JDBC provides uniform access to a wide range of relational databases.
It also provides a common base on which higher-level tools and interfaces
can be built. Short form: JDBC.
- Java
Development Kit
-
a software development environment that is available
from Sun Microsystems, Inc. The JDK includes a Java Runtime Environment
(JRE), a compiler, a debugger, and other tools for developing Java
applets and applications. Short form: JDK.
- JDBC
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See Java Database Connectivity.
- JDK
-
See Java Development Kit.
- join
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to combine data from two or more tables into a
single result table.
- missing value
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in SAS, a term that describes the contents of
a variable that contains no data for a particular row (or observation).
By default, SAS prints or displays a missing numeric value as a single
period, and it prints or displays a missing character value as a blank
space. In the SQL procedure, a missing value is equivalent to an SQL
NULL value.
- parallel I/O
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a method of input and output that takes advantage
of multiple CPUs and multiple controllers, with multiple disks per
controller to read or write data in independent threads.
- result
set
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the set of rows or records that a server or other
application returns in response to a query.
- SAS
data set
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a file whose contents are in one of the native
SAS file formats. There are two types of SAS data sets: SAS data files
and SAS data views. SAS data files contain data values in addition
to descriptor information that is associated with the data. SAS data
views contain only the descriptor information plus other information
that is required for retrieving data values from other SAS data sets
or from files that are stored in other software vendors' file formats.
- SAS
IOM workspace
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See workspace.
- SAS
Metadata Server
-
a multi-user server that enables users to read
metadata from or write metadata to one or more SAS Metadata Repositories.
The SAS Metadata Server uses the Integrated Object Model (IOM), which
is provided with SAS Integration Technologies, to communicate with
clients and with other servers.
- SAS
Workspace Server
-
a SAS IOM server that is launched in order to
fulfill client requests for IOM workspaces. See also IOM server and
workspace.
- SAS/ACCESS software
-
a group of software interfaces, each of which
makes data from a particular external database management system (DBMS)
directly available to SAS, as well as making SAS data directly available
to the DBMS.
- SAS/SHARE server
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the result of an execution of the SERVER procedure,
which is part of SAS/SHARE software. A server runs in a separate SAS
session that services users' SAS sessions by controlling and executing
input and output requests to one or more SAS libraries.
- Scalable
Performance Data Engine
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a SAS engine that is able to deliver data to applications
rapidly because it organizes the data into a streamlined file format.
The SPD Engine also reads and writes partitioned data sets, which
enable it to use multiple CPUs to perform parallel I/O functions.
Short form: SPD Engine. See also parallel I/O.
- SPD
Engine
-
See Scalable Performance Data Engine.
- SPD
Engine data set
-
a data set created by the SPD Engine that has
up to four component files: one for data, one for metadata, and two
for any indexes. The minimum number of component files is two: data
and metadata. Data is separated from the metadata for SPD Engine file
organization.
- SQL
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See Structured Query Language.
- Structured
Query Language
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a standardized, high-level query language that
is used in relational database management systems to create and manipulate
database management system objects. Short form: SQL.
- Work
library
-
a temporary SAS library that is automatically
defined by SAS at the beginning of each SAS session or SAS job. Unless
you have specified a User library, any newly created SAS file that
has a one- level name will be placed in the Work library by default
and will be deleted at the end of the current SAS session or job.
- workspace
-
in the IOM object hierarchy for a SAS Workspace
Server, an object that represents a single session in SAS. See also
Integrated Object Model.
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