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

SAS/ACCESS Interface to Sybase 4 Example 747DECIMALFLOATBITExamplesThe following are examples of generated SELECT statements involving variouscolumn data types:COL1 is numeric, decimal, or float. This example uses three threads (the default)and COL1 is NOT NULL.select * from DBTAB where (abs(convert(INTEGER, COL1)))%3=0select * from DBTAB where (abs(convert(INTEGER, COL1)))%3=1select * from DBTAB where (abs(convert(INTEGER, COL1)))%3=2COL1 is bit, integer, smallint, or tinyint. This example uses two threads (the default)and COL1 is NOT NULL.select * from DBTAB where (abs(COL1))%3=0select * from DBTAB where (abs(COL1))%3=1COL1 is and integer and is nullable.select * from DBTAB where (abs(COL1))%3=0 OR COL1 IS NULLselect * from DBTAB where (abs(COL1))%3=1Temporary Table Support for SybaseOverviewFor general information about this feature, see “Temporary Table Support for SAS/ACCESS” on page 38.Establishing a Temporary TableWhen you specify CONNECTION=GLOBAL, you can reference a temporary tablethroughout a SAS session, in both DATA steps and procedures. The name of the tableMUST start with the character ’#’. To reference it, use the SAS convention of an nliteral, as in mylib.’#foo’n.Terminating a Temporary TableYou can drop a temporary table at any time, or allow it to be implicitly dropped whenthe connection is terminated. Temporary tables do not persist beyond the scope of asinge connection.ExampleThe following example demonstrates how to use temporary tables: