Help about SQL Libray

[dpmf]

Hi all,

I've been sent to do the SAS support (5.1) for a major telecom company in my country and had almost 0 knowledge transfer, so, they throw me to the wolves and "good luck pal" 🙂

Although i've strugled a lot in the beginning, i now start to see things more clear, but there are some "little" details that i'm not able to understand yet, and this is one small but enervating one:

I've created a SQL Server library and when the lib is white in the SAS Guide (when the box in "pre-assign" is NOT marked in the management console) i can expand the library and the tables appear... But when i check that box and the lib turns yellow... i expand and nothing appears.

There are other libraries in "yellow" that show the tables and some were created by me, but i still can't find WHY this is happening.

Probably is just a **bleep**ty detail, but it stats to hit a nerve here 😄

Anyone can explain?

(I have 'AssignMode = 0' in the extended properties)

Best Regards!

[SASKiwi]

The way to get pre-assigned RDB libraries to show tables is to set AssignMode = 2. Alternatively you can register the tables in SAS metadata, but I find the AssignMode option is far better. Also add DEFER = YES as an advanced option so the database connection is only made when you reference it so is far more efficient when starting a SAS session.

With these options, no matter which way you run SAS via EG, SAS Studio or batch your library definitions all work the same.

[dpmf]

Hi SAS Kiwi,

Thank you for your answer.

One question: You mention a RDB but i use a ODBC Class to create such libs... DOes it make any difference?

I've changed the AssignMode to 2 but the problem mantains... If it's yellow, doesn't expand, if it's white, can expand and shows tables... 😞

Best Regards