SAS 9.3 connect to SQL Server - Updates to large table hangs

[MadhuriDara]

Hi, I am using SAS 9.3 to connect to SQL Server 2017 (AWS RDS) . I run an update statement like this: libname SQL ODBC DSN=SQL_ODBC UID=UID PASSWORD=PWD DIRECT_EXE=DELETE; PROC SQL; UPDATE SQL.TAB100 SET KEY = 1 WHERE KEY IN (SELECT KEY FROM SQL.TAB200); QUIT; TAB100 has 5.3 million rows and TAB200 has 2 rows. This SAS statement just hangs for 2-3 hrs. When the update stmt is run on the SQL Server database it takes 2 sec. I have tired creating DSN with both these dlls: MSODBCSQL17.DLL and SQLNCLI11.DLL. The SAS statement hangs with both the ODBC DSNs. Could you please share your thoughts on how it could be improved. Thanks Much, Madhuri Dara

[ChrisNZ]

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Regarding your question, you should use explicit SQL pass-through.

The syntax is something like this:

proc sql;
  connect using SQL;
  execute by SQL (
    update TAB100 set KEY = 1 where KEY in (select KEY from TAB200)
  );
quit; 

The way you wrote your query, the whole tables are sent to SAS and then back.