The worst offenders in creating such wide-open table structures are in support of ETL staging areas, because batch ETL processing is often designed such that the DBMS is the functional equivalent of a ...

What's the difference b/n a DBMS and a file system. So far from what I have been able to gather a file system 'manages' files (e.g. XFS, NTFS) and a DBMS stores data usng a format/structure (e.g ...

creates SAS/ACCESS descriptor files that describe DBMS data to the SAS System. It also can create a SAS data file from DBMS data. DBLOAD procedure loads SAS or other DBMS data into a DBMS file. SQL ...

without the aid of SAS/SHARE or CEDA, you can rely upon network services for access to remote files (both SAS files and third-party DBMS files). Usually, the local host and the remote host must share ...