You submit SQL statements that are DBMS-specific. For example, you pass Transact-
SQL statements to a Sybase database. The pass-through facility's basic syntax is the
same for all the DBMSs. Only the statements that are used to connect to the DBMS and
the SQL statements are DBMS-specific.
With the pass-through facility, you can perform the following tasks:
• Establish a connection with the DBMS by using a CONNECT statement and
terminate the connection with the DISCONNECT statement.
• Send nonquery DBMS-specific SQL statements to the DBMS by using the
EXECUTE statement.
• Retrieve data from the DBMS to be used in a PROC SQL query with the
CONNECTION TO component in a SELECT statement's FROM clause.
You can use the pass-through facility statements ...