topic Re: connect to access in SAS Programming

connect to access

yonib — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:38:13 GMT

Hi',
does anybody knows how to connect from sas to access?
i will be great to have some examples....

thenks in advance,

Re: connect to access

LinusH — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:51:58 GMT

If you mean MS Access, you can use the tools in SAS/ACCESS to PC File Formats. See on-line doc for examples.

/Linus

Re: connect to access

yonib — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:06:41 GMT

o.k, thanks

Re: connect to access

jvidalg — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:39:34 GMT

I think there is another way using a libname to a odbc

libname bbdd_aaa odbc dsn=odbc_access_sas user=user password=password;

This odbc is pointing to your MS Access database.

Hope it helps...

Re: connect to access

yonib — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:32:16 GMT

My problem is that
I want to access data from MS-Access and from XLS files using the Acceess to ODBC module.(I don’t have the tool SAS/ACCESS to PC File Formats)
We have SAS installed on Itanium 64 bit.
The data is saved on other servers (in Office 2003 ).
Is there an ODBC driver for the 64bit machine that will allow us to connect to those sources?
Someone suggested we can use a system-dsn on a "WOW" 32bit odbc driver and we managed to do so
But how can we tell SAS to go there as DATASRC in the ODBC Libname definition And not to the ODBC 64 bit
Thanks!

Re: connect to access

LinusH — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:01:47 GMT

I assume that you are using SAS on Windows.
I can't see that this should be different than using 32-bit windows. You will need a 64-bit ODBC driver (which you will get from Microsoft for Excel). And if your Excel-files is located in a path that can be reached from your server there should be no obstacles.

If you have all this, and if it does not work, I suggest that open a track on SAS support.

/Linus