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SAS Namespace Types

ExternalTable


Subclass of DataTable


Overview

Represents a table in an external data file.

Security Inheritance and Enforcement Rules

The following list of associations is used to determine if this object should inherit access controls from another object (inheritance), or if the association is allowed for the object (enforcement). An association will not be created unless the calling user is authorized to update one or both objects involved in the association. For more information about inheritance and enforcement rules, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide.

Attributes

Inherited Attributes
Name, Id, Desc, MetadataCreated, MetadataUpdated, ChangeState, IsHidden, LockedBy, NumRows, PublicType, SecTransctxt, TableName, UsageVersion

Associations

= indicates the resident side of an association, or where the association is persisted for cross-repository associations. If no resident side is indicated, this association may not cross repository boundaries.
Name Cardinality Description Associated Types
OwningFile

Partner: AssociatedExternalTable

0 to 1 The file that contains the data for an external table.This relationship should not be used to represent SAS datasets. The PhysicalTable object should be used to represent a dataset.   File
ArchiveFile

Inherited Associations
AccessControls/Objects, Changes/Objects, Columns/Table, CustomAssociations/OwningObject, Documents/Objects, Extensions/OwningObject, ExternalIdentities/OwningObject, FavoritesContainers/Favorites, ForeignKeys/Table, Groups/Members, Implementors/ImplementedObjects, Keywords/Objects, LocalizedAttributes/AssociatedLocalizedObject, Notes/Objects, PrimaryPropertyGroup/AssociatedObject, Prompts/PromptEnabledObject, Properties/AssociatedObject, PropertySets/OwningObject, ReferencedObjects/AssociatedObjects, ResponsibleParties/Objects, Roles/RoleObject, SourceClassifierMaps/ClassifierSources, SourceTransformations/TransformationSources, SpecSourceTransformations/SourceSpecifications, SpecTargetTransformations/TargetSpecifications, TableCollections/Tables, TablePackage/Tables, TargetClassifierMaps/ClassifierTargets, TargetTransformations/TransformationTargets, Timestamps/Objects, Trees/Members, TSObjectNamespace/TSObjects, UniqueKeys/Table, UsedByPrototypes/UsingPrototype, UsingPrototype/UsedByPrototypes, Variables/AssociatedObject

Association Details

OwningFile
     Cardinality:   0 to 1
     Partner:   AssociatedExternalTable

The file that contains the data for an external table.This relationship should not be used to represent SAS datasets. The PhysicalTable object should be used to represent a dataset.  

Associated Types:
File, ArchiveFile

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