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

The LIBNAME Statement for Relational Databases 4 UTILCONN_TRANSIENT= LIBNAME Option 201connection is used. The utility connection prevents the COMMIT statements that areissued to unlock system resources from being submitted on the same connection that isbeing used for table processing. Keeping the COMMIT statements off of the tableprocessing connection alleviates the problems they can cause such as invalidatingcursors and committing pending updates on the tables being processed.Because a utility connection exists for each LIBNAME statement, the number ofconnection to a DBMS can get large as multiple librefs are assigned across multipleSAS sessions. Setting UTILCONN_TRANSIENT=YES keeps these connections fromexisting when they are not being used. This setting reduces the number of currentconnections to the DBMS at any given point in time.UTILCONN_TRANSIENT= has no effect on engines that do not support utilityconnections.See Also“DELETE_MULT_ROWS= LIBNAME Option” on page 141