This depends on your backend database. Procs other than SQL might have SQL generated and passed through, e.g., means, freq. You have to check the sas access documentation for your backend. As far as actual data steps running in the database, this is accomplished using proc DS2, which allows you to run threaded code in the DB - but this is available only for Teradata and Hadoop. Special add-on products may be required (something like in-database code accelerator), and your installation may already have them. see: https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.4&docsetId=acreldb&docsetTarget=p13td0l6w0329rn15ul6giz9v82r.htm&locale=en
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