SAS ODBC Driver User's Guide and Programmer's Reference

What Is the SAS ODBC Driver?

The SAS ODBC driver is an implementation of the ODBC standard that enables you to access, manipulate, and update SAS data sources from ODBC-compliant applications. As Components of ODBC Functionality shows, the SAS ODBC driver uses a SAS server to access data from your SAS data sources. The SAS server executes in an iconified, interactive SAS session. (See SAS Servers for more information.) If you use other ODBC drivers (such as those for ORACLE or SQL Server) to access other data sources, those drivers may require additional software components.

Note: To access ODBC data sources from within the SAS System (the opposite of what the SAS ODBC driver enables you to accomplish), you must license the SAS/ACCESS interface to ODBC, which is documented in SAS/ACCESS Software for Relational Databases: Reference. [cautionend]

Components of ODBC Functionality

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