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SQL - PASS through facility - SAS

Can anyone please help me on this

1. when we are using SQL pass through facility can we create a view or update a table directly in the database we are connecting to if so Can you plz help me on that.

2. Consider a situation where i have created a permenant SAS dataset using SQL pass through facility and then next time i need to update the same dataset with new columns and data flowing from the query of tera data

as

can i write as

create table
update table
(select * -query)

thanks in advance

Aloysius Low

for #1, I have not tried it before, but i'd think it's possible and something along the lines of
proc sql;
connect to [dbms name] as [alias] (user=[username] pw=[password] path='[path]');
execute (SQL query to be understood by the database) by [alias];
disconnect from [alias];
quit;

for #2, i'm have not used tera data queries before, not too sure how things work.

aruku

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thanks but I just want to know if we can update the same data set the next time whatever may be the SQL

Aloysius Low

well i don't see why not, but I may be wrong...

aruku

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To be more clear.

I have first created a sas dataset arun.a from the sql pass through facility and the next time i don't want to run the whole query again and hit the database but i just want to update a column from the data base into my dataset then can i use a

update arun.a as ( select ac from b );
quit;

and the new column of ac gets updated in my dataset insted of running the whole query again

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