Any data that does not fall into the traditional field structure (alpha, numeric, dates) of a relational DBMS. Examples of complex data types are bills of materials, word processing documents ...

Note: This example uses a Version 6 view descriptor with the Pass-Through Facility to access DBMS data. Beginning in Version 7, you can associate a libref directly with your DBMS data and use the ...

In this example, you create a simple table to test for yourself how the options work. To use name literals, you must specify the SAS system option VALIDVARNAME=ANY. Notice that you print the new DBMS ...