Relational Storage: SAS Data Sets
You can use SAS data sets, the default SAS storage format, to store data of any
granularity. The data values in a SAS data set are organized as a table of observations
(rows) and variables (columns). A SAS data set also contains descriptor information
such as the data types and lengths of the columns, as well as which SAS engine was
used to create the data.
Access to Third-Party Databases: SAS/ACCESS
SAS/ACCESS provides interfaces to a wide range of relational, hierarchical, and
network model databases. Examples include DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata,
Hadoop, IBM Information Management System (IMS), and Computer Associates
Integrated Database Management System (CA-IDMS). With SAS/ACCESS, SAS
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