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. If you did not create the DBF file, you must be ...

A corrupt dbf file gives this message when I try to open it: "Microsoft has stopped the process because you and another user are trying to change the same data at the same time."The message is ...

I know you can open *.dbf files in Access 97 as I had to do it frequently at my last job. I think that it only goes back to version 3 though. Prior to that you are SOL unless you have another ...