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

184 SHOW_SYNONYMS= LIBNAME Option 4 Chapter 10SHOW_SYNONYMS= LIBNAME OptionSpecifies whether PROC DATASETS shows synonyms, tables, views, or materialized views for thecurrent user and schema if you specified the SCHEMA= option.Default value: YESValid in: SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME statementDBMS support: OracleSyntaxSHOW_SYNONYMS=Syntax DescriptionYESspecifies that PROC DATASETS shows only synonyms that represent tables, views,or materialized views for the current user.NOspecifies that PROC DATASETS shows only tables, views, or materialized views forthe current user.DetailsInstead of submitting PROC DATASETS, you can click the libref for the SAS Explorerwindow to get this same information. By default, no PUBLIC synonyms display unlessyou specify SCHEMA=PUBLIC.When you specify only the SCHEMA option, the current schema always displays withthe appropriate privileges.Tables, views, materialized views, or synonyms on the remote database alwaysdisplay when you specify the DBLINK= LIBNAME option. If a synonym represents anobject on a remote database that you might not be able to read, such as a synonymrepresenting a sequence, you might receive an Oracle error.Synonyms, tables, views, and materialized views in a different schema also display.See Also“DBLINK= LIBNAME Option” on page 129