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

464 Autopartitioning Scheme for DB2 Under UNIX and PC Hosts 4 Chapter 15Autopartitioning Scheme for DB2 Under UNIX and PC HostsOverviewAutopartitioning for SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 for UNIX and PC Hosts is amodulo (MOD) function method. For general information about this feature, see“Autopartitioning Techniques in SAS/ACCESS” on page 57.Autopartitioning RestrictionsSAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 under UNIX and PC Hosts places additionalrestrictions on the columns that you can use for the partitioning column during theautopartitioning phase. Here is how columns are partitioned.3 INTEGER and SMALLINT columns are given preference.3 You can use other DB2 numeric columns for partitioning as long as the precisionminus the scale of the column is between 0 and 10—that is, 0