PROC SQL follows most of the guidelines set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in its implementation of SQL. However, it is not fully compliant with the current ANSI Standard for SQL.

To update DBF data, you can specify view descriptors in the SQL procedure's INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE statements. You can also use these statements to modify SAS data files. However, the ability to ...

The SQL procedure is the Base SAS implementation of Structured Query Language. PROC SQL is part of Base SAS software, and you can use it with any SAS data set (table). Often, PROC SQL can be an ...