A Version 6 PROC SQL Pass-Through view does not need to be updated to be used in Version 7 or Version 8. The conversion of PROC SQL Pass-Through views is automatic and does not require you to use the ...

This saves memory when you have a large view, but need to select only a small portion of the data contained in the view. PROC SQL views do not use DATA step programming. PROC SQL views can combine ...

A reader recently pointed out to me that I could drastically simplify that retrieval code by leveraging SQL views. A SQL view pulls together multiple tables (and selected columns from those tables) ...