I have a number of large SybaseIQ SQL scripts (5000+ lines each). The READ statement for each contains a number of parameters. Is there a way to execute the READ through the Proc SQL procedure using the SAS/ACCESS for SybaseIQ interface?
many thanks in advance
K
Can you post an example of a SybaseIQ READ statement? Normally non-standard SQL can be executed via SAS's PASSTHRU EXECUTE statement.
Here is how you do an EXECUTE statement. All you need to do is put your Sybase code inside the brackets. Does this produce a result set by the way? If so then you may need to take a different approach.
Thanks SAS Kiwi,
Yes it produces a very large result set. Also, inserting the code between braces is not practical because as I mentioned, some of these queries are 5000+ lines long.
regards
K
You could wrap the SQL code into an SQL stored procedure, then call that. You will also need to create a temporary table or view instead of producing a result set and then query the table / view in a following "normal" SQL passthru query.
Good idea !! This sounds feasible, I'll give it a go on Monday and let you know how it goes. However I think there is still one potential issue which I forgot to mention earlier. Some of the parameters to the SQL script need to bee macro variables.
Shouldn't be a problem. The usual hassle is most databases require parameters to be wrapped in single quotes but this technique gets around that problem:
%str(%')&MyMacroVar%str(%')
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