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

314 DBSASTYPE= Data Set Option 4 Chapter 11Syntax DescriptionCOMPATspecifies that the labels returned should be compatible with what the applicationnormally receives. In other words, engines exhibit their normal behavior.NONEspecifies that the engine does not return a column label. The engine returns blanksfor the column labels.DetailsBy default, the SAS/ACCESS interface for your DBMS generates column labels fromcolumn names instead of from the real column labels.You can use this option to override the default behavior. It is useful for when PROCSQL uses column labels as headings instead of column aliases.ExamplesThis example demonstrates how you can use DBSASLABEL= to return blank columnlabels so that PROC SQL can use the column aliases as the column headings.proc sql;select deptno as Department ID, loc as Locationfrom mylib.dept(dbsaslabel=none);When DBSASLABEL=NONE, PROC SQL ignores the aliases, and it uses DEPTNOand LOC as column headings in the result set.DBSASTYPE= Data Set OptionSpecifies data types to override the default SAS data types during input processing.Default value: DBMS-specificValid in: DATA and PROC steps (when accessing DBMS data using SAS/ACCESSsoftware)DBMS support: Aster nCluster, DB2 under UNIX and PC Hosts, DB2 under z/OS,Greenplum, HP Neoview, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Netezza, ODBC,OLE DB, Oracle, Sybase IQ, TeradataSyntaxDBSASTYPE=(column-name-1=SAS-data-type)