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

324 DISTRIBUTE_ON= Data Set Option 4 Chapter 11ExampleThis example shows how to create a table by specifying a distribution key.libname x sasiogpl user=myuser password=mypwd dsn=Greenplum;data x.sales (dbtype=(id=int qty=int amt=int) distributed_by=’distributed by (id)’);id = 1;qty = 100;sales_date = ’27Aug2009’d;amt = 20000;run;It creates the SALES table.CREATE TABLE SALES(id int,qty int,sales_date double precision,amt int) distributed by (id)DISTRIBUTE_ON= Data Set OptionSpecifies a column name to use in the DISTRIBUTE ON clause of the CREATE TABLE statement.Alias: DISTRIBUTE= [Netezza]Default value: noneValid in: DATA and PROC steps (when accessing DBMS data using SAS/ACCESSsoftware)DBMS support: Aster nCluster, NetezzaSyntaxDISTRIBUTE_ON=’column-1 ’ | RANDOMSyntax Descriptioncolumn-namespecifies a DBMS column name.RANDOMspecifies that data is distributed evenly. For Netezza, the Netezza PerformanceServer does this across all SPUs. This is known as round-robin distribution.DetailsYou can use this option to specify a column name to use in the DISTRIBUTE ON=clause of the CREATE TABLE statement. Each table in the database must have a