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

The DICTIONARY tables component is specified in the FROM clause of a SELECT statement. DICTIONARY is a reserved libref for use only in PROC SQL. Data from DICTIONARY tables are generated at run time.

A SQL view pulls together multiple tables (and selected columns from those tables) into a single package. The key feature of a SQL view is that both SQL Server and Entity Framework have a great deal ...

The DESCRIBE VIEW statement writes a view definition to the SAS log. If you use a PROC SQL view in the DESCRIBE VIEW statement that is based on or derived from another view, you may want to use the ...

A view is a saved T-SQL query in SQL Server. The view definition is stored by SQL Server so that it can be used as a virtual table to simplify queries and add a layer of security to your base ...