I've been a technical writer here at SAS for over 10 years. I've worked on both user and administrator documentation for SAS retail solutions. Most recently, I'm documenting SAS/ACCESS and Base SAS for UNIX platforms.
thank you sorry for my late answer , I have a lot of work to do , I'm at the very beginning of SAS. I try to automatize some process that I have to do daily. it seems more hard in SAS but the time is priceless
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Your point is well taken, PascalMaurice, & you can certainly do that. One assumption we made for these articles was to be sure that all SAS/ACCESS products working with ODBC on UNIX platforms can be used in the same SAS session.
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SAS isn't a database but like for a data base in order to access the data you need a SAS server. Additionally to what @LinusH proposes and depending on SAS components licensed I believe it should also be possible to implement a Web Service which you then call from your application. https://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/itechov/64881/PDF/default/itechov.pdf
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Support for the longer table and column names (>30 chars) isn't available currently. We are aware of the need, and support for 32 character names is coming with SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata in the next release.
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