About SAS/ACCESS Software

Definition of SAS/ACCESS Software

SAS/ACCESS software

enables you to read and write data to and from other vendors' database management systems (DBMS), as well as from some PC file formats. Depending on your DBMS, a SAS/ACCESS product might provide one or more of the following:

a dynamic LIBNAME engine
the SQL Pass-Through Facility
the ACCESS procedure and interface view engine
the DBLOAD procedure
an interface DATA step engine.

These interfaces are described in this section. Each SAS/ACCESS product provides one or more of these interfaces for each supported DBMS. See SAS Engines for more information about SAS engines.

Note: To use the SAS/ACCESS features described in this section, you must license SAS/ACCESS software. See the SAS/ACCESS documentation for your DBMS for full documentation of the features described in this section. [cautionend]

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