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

Data Set Options for Relational Databases 4 PARTITION_KEY= Data Set Option 357SyntaxORHINTS=’Oracle-hint’Syntax DescriptionOracle-hintspecifies an Oracle hint for SAS/ACCESS to pass to the DBMS as part of an SQLquery.DetailsIf you specify an Oracle hint, SAS passes the hint to Oracle. If you omit ORHINTS=,SAS does not send any hints to Oracle.ExamplesThis example runs a SAS procedure on DBMS data and SAS converts the procedureto one or more SQL queries. ORHINTS= enables you to specify an Oracle hint for SASto pass as part of the SQL query.libname mydblib oracle user=testuser password=testpass path=’myorapath’;proc print data=mydblib.payroll(orhints=’/*+ ALL_ROWS */’);run;In the next example, SAS sends the Oracle hint ’/*+ ALL_ROWS */’ to Oracle aspart of this statement:SELECT /*+ ALL_ROWS */ * FROM PAYROLLPARTITION_KEY= Data Set OptionSpecifies the column name to use as the partition key for creating fact tables.Default value: noneValid in: DATA and PROC steps (when accessing DBMS data using SAS/ACCESSsoftware)DBMS support: Aster nClusterSyntaxPARTITION_KEY=’column-name’DetailsYou must enclose the column name in quotation marks.Aster nCluster uses dimension and fact tables. To create a data set in Aster nClusterwithout error, you must set both the DIMENSION= and PARTITION_KEY=(LIBNAME or data set) options.