The SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility is an extension of the SQL procedure that enables you to send DBMS-specific statements to a DBMS and to retrieve DBMS data. You specify DBMS SQL syntax instead ...

PROC SQL views can both read and update the data that they reference. PROC SQL supports more types of WHERE clauses than are available in DATA step processing and has a CONNECT TO component that ...

SQL Server Named DBMS of the YearWay back in the summer of 2014, I told you about how I used DB-Engines to determine the popularity of various data management tools and vendor platforms. At that time, ...

This short diatribe should show you that there are some problems in existing SQL DBMS implementations. But, instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, wouldn't it be better to see what a ...