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

852 Querying a DBMS Table 4 Chapter 29title ’Total Salary by Jobcode’;proc sql;select jobcode label=’Jobcode’,sum(salary) as totallabel=’Total for Group’format=dollar11.2from mydblib.payrollgroup by jobcode;quit;Output 29.5Querying a DBMS TableTotal Salary by JobcodeJobcodeTotal forGroupBCK $232,148.00FA1 $253,433.00FA2 $447,790.00FA3 $230,537.00ME1 $228,002.00ME2 $498,076.00ME3 $296,875.00NA1 $210,161.00NA2 $157,149.00PT1 $543,264.00PT2 $879,252.00PT3 $21,009.00SCP $128,162.00TA1 $249,492.00TA2 $671,499.00TA3 $476,155.00The next example uses the SQL procedure to query flight information from theOracle table Delay. The WHERE clause specifies that only flights to London andFrankfurt are retrieved.libname mydblib oracle user=testuser password=testpass;title ’Flights to London and Frankfurt’;proc sql;select dates format=datetime9.,dest from mydblib.delaywhere (dest eq "FRA") or(dest eq "LON")order by dest;quit;Note: By default, the DBMS processes both the WHERE clause and the ORDER BYclause for optimized performance. See “Overview of Optimizing Your SQL Usage” onpage 41 for more information. 4