The Data Manipulation Language (DML) provides commands for retrieving, inserting, updating, and deleting data. The SELECT statement is the most commonly used command for querying data from a database.

As in other PROC and DATA steps, you can use only a view descriptor or other SAS data set in an SQL procedure statement, not an access descriptor. You can usually only browse data retrieved using a ...

The PROC SQL SELECT statement uses a CONNECTION TO component in the FROM clause to retrieve data from the ORACLE table. The Pass-Through query (in italics) is enclosed in parentheses and uses ORACLE ...