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

Accessing DBMS Data with the SQL Pass-Through Facility 4 Retrieving DBMS Data with a Pass-Through Query 869Output 30.1Data Retrieved by a Pass-Through QueryBrief Data for All InvoicesINVOICENUM NAME BILLEDON AMTINUS-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------11270 LABORATORIO DE PESQUISAS VETERINARIAS DESIDERIO FINAMOR 05OCT1998 $2,256,870.0011271 LONE STAR STATE RESEARCH SUPPLIERS 05OCT1998 $11,063,836.0011273 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MATERIALS 06OCT1998 $252,148.5011276 SANTA CLARA VALLEY TECHNOLOGY SPECIALISTS 06OCT1998 $1,934,460.0011278 UNIVERSITY BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS 06OCT1998 $1,400,825.0011280 LABORATORIO DE PESQUISAS VETERINARIAS DESIDERIO FINAMOR 07OCT1998 $2,256,870.0011282 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MATERIALS 07OCT1998 $252,148.5011285 INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA Y MEDICINA NUCLEAR 10OCT1998 $2,256,870.0011286 RESEARCH OUTFITTERS 10OCT1998 $11,063,836.0011287 GREAT LAKES LABORATORY EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS 11OCT1998 $252,148.5012051 LABORATORIO DE PESQUISAS VETERINARIAS DESIDERIO FINAMOR 02NOV1998 $2,256,870.0012102 LONE STAR STATE RESEARCH SUPPLIERS 17NOV1998 $11,063,836.0012263 TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MATERIALS 05DEC1998 $252,148.5012468 UNIVERSITY BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS 24DEC1998 $1,400,825.0012476 INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA Y MEDICINA NUCLEAR 24DEC1998 $2,256,870.0012478 GREAT LAKES LABORATORY EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS 24DEC1998 $252,148.5012471 LABORATORIO DE PESQUISAS VETERINARIAS DESIDERIO FINAMOR 27DEC1998 $2,256,870.00The following example changes the Pass-Through query into an SQL view. It adds aCREATE VIEW statement to the query, removes the ORDER BY clause from theCONNECTION TO component, and adds the ORDER BY clause to a separate SELECTstatement that prints only the new SQL view. *libname samples ’your-SAS-data-library’;proc sql;connect to oracle as mydb (user=testuser password=testpass);%put &sqlxmsg;create view samples.brief asselect invnum, name, billedon format=datetime9.,amtinus format=dollar20.2from connection to mydb(select invnum, billedon, amtinus, namefrom invoices, customerswhere invoices.billedto=customers.customer);%put &sqlxmsg;disconnect from mydb;options ls=120 label;title ’Brief Data for All Invoices’;select * from samples.brieforder by billedon, invnum;quit;The output from the Samples.Brief view is the same as shown in Output 30.1.* If you have data that is usually sorted, it is more efficient to keep the ORDER BY clause in the Pass-Through query and letthe DBMS sort the data.