Documents This paper provides an overview of the most important features and capabilities of the SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2. General and technical product information is given for SAS/ACCESS and DB2 RDBMS users who need fast, seamless access to DB2 tables from the SAS System. The methods for accessing DB2 data are presented, along with examples.
This paper discusses how to create simple and composite SAS indexes, how to determine which variables make good index key variables, when creating and using indexes is appropriate, what centiles are, and how to generate index usage messages.
What are SAS date and time values? How are they used and why do we care? What are some of the more important of the many functions, formats, and tools that have been developed that work with these crucial elements of the SAS System?






