When PROC SQL executes the view, the stored query assigns the libref and establishes the DBMS connection using the information in the LIBNAME statement. The scope of the libref is local to the view, ...

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Manually querying V$ views or AWR is inefficient and difficult to track over the long term. Through automated s, we can ...