As in other PROC and DATA steps, you can use only a view descriptor or other SAS data set in an SQL procedure statement, not an access descriptor. If you did not create the DBF file, you must be ...

Modifies a column's values in existing rows of a table or view. Restriction: You cannot use UPDATE on a table accessed via an engine that does not support UPDATE processing. You can update one or more ...

Well, if you happen to be using Sql Server you can do that sort of thing in T-Sql. In Oracle, you can also accomplish the same thing using pl/sql. Either way i'd do it in a stored procedure.<BR ...