I'm happy to spin up 10 app servers rather than make the single database faster, but I'm not sure these apps would be offloading much from the database just by doing "joins" in-memory.

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Another way to increase efficiency is to extract the DBMS data and place it in a new SAS data file, assign SAS indexes to the appropriate variables, then to join the two SAS data files. Output for ...

The previous examples showed how to read DBMS data and perform operations on the data in SAS. You can also perform operations on data directly in your DBMS by using the SQL procedure. The following ...