SAS/ACCESS Software for PC File Formats: Reference

Procedure Statements

This section describes in alphabetical order the statements you use inside a PROC ACCESS program block to create or modify access and view descriptors. Options and Statements Required for the ACCESS Procedure presents a task-oriented overview and indicates the order in which statements must appear. See CREATE for additional information on this order and for information on database-description and editing statements.

Options and Statements Required for the ACCESS Procedure
Tasks Options and Statements You Use

create an access descriptor

PROC ACCESS DBMS=DBF|DIF|WKn|XLS;

CREATE libref.member-name.ACCESS;
required database-description statements;
optional editing statements;

RUN;

create an access descriptor and a view descriptor

PROC ACCESS DBMS=DBF|DIF|WKn| XLS;

CREATE libref.member-name.ACCESS;
required database-description statements;
optional editing statements;

CREATE libref.member-name.VIEW;

SELECT column-list;
optional editing statements;

RUN;

create a view descriptor from an existing access descriptor

PROC ACCESS DBMS=DBF|DIF|WKn|XLS
ACCDESC=libref.access-descriptor;

CREATE libref.member-name.VIEW;

SELECT column-list;
optional editing statements;

RUN;

As the table indicates, you can create one or more access descriptors and view descriptors in one execution of PROC ACCESS, or you can create the descriptors in separate executions.

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