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.

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In some SAS/ACCESS interfaces, you can issue an EXECUTE statement directly without first explicitly connecting to a DBMS (see CONNECT Statement). If you omit the CONNECT statement, an implicit ...