Date:         Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:39:28 -0700
Reply-To:     "Karen L. Wyland" <kwyland@SFO.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Karen L. Wyland" <kwyland@SFO.COM>
Organization: San Francisco Online (Televolve, Inc.)
Subject:      Re: SAS via ODBC?????
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Michael,
    There is a Universal ODBC driver that SAS has on their website for use by
clients without the SAS System but who would like to access sas datasets.
There is a fee for this - I believe ~$100. each.   You might check it out.
Otherwise, I know of not other way.
 
wr23555d wrote:
 
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to read SAS data from outside SAS. I could do that through ODBC
> with the driver that is installed by SAS. Unlike other ODBC interfaces, I
> have to start a SAS proces that delivers the data.
>
> I would like to read the SAS datasets (.sd2) without having to start a
> server process. Is there an alternate ODBC SAS Driver available that can
> just read the SAS dataset contents???
>
> Regards, Michiel Brunt