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iv Contents<br />

Establishing Connectivity to an Oracle <strong>Data</strong>base By Using ODBC . 60<br />

Establishing Connectivity to a Microsoft Access<br />

<strong>Data</strong>base By Using ODBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66<br />

Establishing Connectivity to a <strong>Data</strong>Flux Federation Server . . . . . . . 72<br />

Establishing Connectivity to a Scalable Performance <strong>Data</strong> Server . 76<br />

Establishing Connectivity to an SAP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />

Establishing Connectivity to Hadoop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86<br />

Registering and Verifying Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />

Read-only Access for Reporting Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />

Setting UNIX Environment Variables for <strong>SAS</strong>/ACCESS . . . . . . . . . . 95<br />

Troubleshooting <strong>SAS</strong>/ACCESS Connections to RDBMS . . . . . . . . . 96<br />

Chapter 3 • Assigning Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99<br />

What Does It Mean to Assign a Library? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99<br />

How Do the Different <strong>Platform</strong> Clients Assign Libraries? . . . . . . . . 100<br />

Understanding Pre-Assigned Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102<br />

Understanding Native Engines and the Metadata<br />

LIBNAME Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104<br />

Considerations for <strong>SAS</strong> Stored Process and <strong>SAS</strong><br />

Pooled Workspace Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106<br />

Pre-assigning a Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109<br />

Verifying Pre-assignments By Reviewing the Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . 115<br />

Chapter 4 • Managing Table Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117<br />

Overview of Managing Table Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117<br />

Creating Table Metadata for a New Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br />

Assessing Potential Changes in Advance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120<br />

Updating Your Table Metadata to Match <strong>Data</strong> in<br />

Your Physical Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121<br />

Chapter 5 • Optimizing <strong>Data</strong> Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127<br />

Overview of Optimizing <strong>Data</strong> Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128<br />

Compressing <strong>Data</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128<br />

Indexing <strong>Data</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132<br />

Sorting <strong>Data</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134<br />

Buffering <strong>Data</strong> for Base <strong>SAS</strong> Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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