SAS/ACCESS 9.2 for Relational Databases: Reference, Fourth Edition

The LIBNAME Statement for Relational Databases 4 BL_OPTIONS= LIBNAME Option 101See Also“BL_NUM_ROW_SEPS= Data Set Option” on page 266“BULKEXTRACT= LIBNAME Option” on page 102“BULKEXTRACT= Data Set Option” on page 289“BULKLOAD= Data Set Option” on page 290BL_OPTIONS= LIBNAME OptionPasses options to the DBMS bulk-load facility, which affects how it loads and processes data.Default value: not specifiedValid in: SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME statementDBMS support: ODBC, OLE DBSyntaxBL_OPTIONS=’option ’DetailsYou can use BL_OPTIONS= to pass options to the DBMS bulk-load facility when it iscalled, thereby affecting how data is loaded and processed. You must separate multipleoptions with commas and enclose the entire string of options in quotation marks.By default, no options are specified. This option takes the same values as the -hHINT option of the Microsoft BCP utility. See the Microsoft SQL Server documentationfor more information about bulk copy options.This option is valid only when you use the Microsoft SQL Server driver or theMicrosoft SQL Server provider on Windows platforms.ODBC: Supported hints are ORDER, ROWS_PER_BATCH,KILOBYTES_PER_BATCH, TABLOCK, and CHECK_CONSTRAINTS. If you specifyUPDATE_LOCK_TYPE=TABLE, the TABLOCK hint is automatically added.See AlsoTo apply this option to an individual data set, see the “BL_OPTIONS= Data SetOption” on page 267.“UPDATE_LOCK_TYPE= LIBNAME Option” on page 196