Any data that does not fall into the traditional field structure (alpha, numeric, dates) of a relational DBMS. Examples of complex data types are bills of materials, word processing documents, maps, ...
Note: This example uses a Version 6 view descriptor with the Pass-Through Facility to access DBMS data. Beginning in Version 7, you can associate a libref directly with your DBMS data and use the ...
If the aforementioned options are not set, the following rules apply when you map DBMS column names to SAS variable names: Characters that are not standard in SAS names (such as @ and #) that appear ...