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

SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle 4 Arguments 709can enter the information that is required by the PATH= statement beforeinvoking SAS.SAS/ACCESS uses the same Oracle path designation that you use toconnect to Oracle directly. See your database administrator to determine thedatabases that have been set up in your operating environment, and todetermine the default values if you do not specify a database. On UNIXsystems, the TWO_TASK environment variable is used, if set. If neither thePATH= nor the TWO_TASK values have been set, the default value is thelocal driver.If you specify the appropriate system options or environment variables for Oracle,you can often omit the connection options from your LIBNAME statements. Seeyour Oracle documentation for details.LIBNAME-optionsdefine how SAS processes DBMS objects. Some LIBNAME options can enhanceperformance, while others determine locking or naming behavior. The followingtable describes the LIBNAME options for SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle, withthe applicable default values. For more detail about these options, see “LIBNAMEOptions for Relational Databases” on page 92.Table 25.1SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME Options for OracleOptionACCESS=ADJUST_BYTE_SEMANTIC_COLUMN_LENGTHS=ADJUST_NCHAR_COLUMN_LENGTHS=AUTHDOMAIN=CONNECTION=CONNECTION_GROUP=DB_LENGTH_SEMANTICS_BYTE=DBCLIENT_MAX_BYTES=Default ValuenoneconditionalYESnoneSHAREDREADnoneYESmatches the maximum number ofbytes per single character of theSAS session encodingDBSERVER_MAX_BYTES= usually 1DBCOMMIT=DBCONINIT=DBCONTERM=DBCREATE_TABLE_OPTS=DBGEN_NAME=DBINDEX=1000 when inserting rows; 0 whenupdating rows, deleting rows, orappending rows to an existingtablenonenonenoneDBMSNOUse this option only when theobject is a TABLE, not a VIEW.Use DBKEY when you do notknow whether the object is aTABLE.