The solution is to use SQL views, materialized views, or create a new table that contains only the filtered data the user needs.

You may want to view the contents of DICTIONARY tables to see information about your current SAS session, prior to actually using the table in a SAS DATA step or a SAS procedure. Because DICTIONARY ...

PROC SQL allows you to specify the ORDER BY clause in the CREATE VIEW statement. Every time a view is accessed, its data are sorted and displayed as specified by the ORDER BY clause. This sorting on ...

SQL lets you use one command to quickly create a new table containing a subset of records from a larger table while working in Access. Sound complicated? It's not, as Mary Ann Richardson shows us.