I'm trying to use an OLEDB connection to connect to my SAS datasets from QlikView.
I am able to set up the connection, but I am not able to load my data. Executing the data import results in the following error: "the local provider does not currently support sql processing"
My loading code looks like this:
LOAD "account",
balance,
"open_closed";
SQL SELECT *
FROM "BASE_DATA";
Is there any way to solve this?
We read SAS data into QlikView using SAS ODBC driver that connects to SAS/SHARE.
This requires that you have one of the following three:
1. SAS/SPD Server
2. SAS/SHARE Server
3. SAS locally on desktop (will not work on server license)
Related
Live connections
When connecting to SQL Server Analysis Services,
there's an option to either import data from or connect live to, the
selected data model. If you use import, you define a query against
that external SQL Server Analysis Services source, and the data is
imported as normal. If you use connect live, there's no query defined,
and the entire external model is shown in the field list.
My understanding was that import/direct query can be used to query a data source like SQL server. Where as live mode is used to connect to an existing power bi dataset, or SSAS, or azure analysis service.
The above quote says When connecting to SQL Server Analysis Services, there's an option to either import data from or connect live to, the selected data model. - So does this mean that the live mode allows us to choose between import/direct query to the live model?
When connecting to SQL Server Analysis Services, there's an option to
either import data from or connect live to, the selected data model.
This quote means that you do not have to use a live connection with SSAS models. Instead you can construct a query and import the data. The dataset would be limited to whatever was in the query. If you use a live connection, you have access to the entire model.
I created a Snowflake connection via Power BI Desktop after providing the Server and Warehouse Name; then under Advanced Options I specified the Database and entered the following in the SQL statement text area:
call myStoredProcedureName();
and received a pop-up stating "Unable to connect. We encountered an error while trying to connect. Details: 'Native queries aren't supported by this value'".
This is using Snowflake type connection so what am I missing? If I execute using the same syntax directly in Snowflake, I get the results without any issues.
Forgot to mention that I'm using Import mode, b/c my 1st attempt using Direct mode produced an error clearly stating Direct Mode wasn't supported.
I am using SAS EG to connect to teradata to read/write destination tables. I am using pass through sql to connect to teradata. Since , this is explicit sql in SAS, i am not able to see details in logs such as record inserts to a table, updates(how many records got updated etc). Is there a way to get such information in sas logs? I know it is possible in data steps in sas but with above request i am not able to do so. Thanks for your help.
Options SASTRACE helps and you can try
options sastrace=',,,d' sastraceloc=saslog nostsuffix;;
More info what the option logs and how you can effectively use SAS Trace with Teradata connections can be found in "Troubleshooting SAS and Teradata Query Performance Problems", Jeffrey D. Bailey, 2010.
The documentation for SASTRACE option is found at:
http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/acreldb/63647/HTML/default/viewer.htm#a000433982.htm
I need to connect Power BI to SAS using an OLE DB connection (can't use ODBC nor the native connection). Here is the string from the build:
provider=sas.IOMProvider.9.45;data source="iom-name://SASApp - Logical Workspace Server";mode="ReadWrite|Share Deny None";sas cell cache size=10000;sas port=0;sas protocol=0;sas server type=1;sas metadata user id=dxru984;sas metadata password=XXXXX;sas metadata location=iom-bridge://lhwappb1.xxx-xx.xxx:8561
I also tried with this one:
Provider=sas.IOMProvider.9.45;Data Source=iom-name://SASApp - Logical Workspace Server;SAS Cell Cache Size=10000;SAS Port=0;SAS Protocol=0;SAS Server Type=1;SAS Metadata User ID=dxru984;SAS Metadata Password=xxxxxxx;SAS Metadata Location=iom-bridge://lhwappb1.xxx-xx.xxx:8561
The first string works perfectly with Excel but not in PowerBI with that error message:
OLE DB : Format of the initialization string does not conform to the
OLE DB specification
Any idea?
I managed to connect to SAS Federation Server data using the following connection string:
provider=sas.IOMProvider.9.45;data source=blablabla2.abc.pt;sas port=1234;sas protocol=2;sas metadata user id=******;sas metadata password=**********;sas metadata location=blablabla1.abc.pt:5678
Hope this helps,
Rita Dias
We have a some ETL processes that read CSV files that are output from SAS programs. I'm in the process of upgrading one of these ETLs and was wondering if I could use SSIS to read directly from the SAS dataset.
Has anybody done this successfully?
See here
"You can use SAS Local Data Provider (can be downloaded separately and comes as part of SAS for Windows installation). "
Recently I've moved data from SAS environment:
In connection manager I choose _Native OLE DB\SAS Local Data Provider 9.3_
Enter file name (`\..\dev` before the table name). Click OK
Drag _OLE DB Source_ into the Data Flow
Right click on _OLE DB Source_ and choose _Show advanced editor_
In the first tab (_Connection Manager_) choose _SAS Connection Manager_ from drop down list you created now
In the Component Properties tab in _OpenRowset_ write the name of the table, click OK
If you have `datetime` type transform it using Derived Transformation Editor
For loading SAS XPT or SAS7BDAT data files without having an instance of SAS to connect to via OBDC we used the following
A third party tool (STATTransfer) to read the XPT file
STATTransfer ODBC driver
Setup the connection in SSIS as an ODBC datasource and load into the database for processing.
There are SAS datasource SSIS extension available http://www.cozyroc.com offer a SAS Data connection, but they where outside our price range