Oracle9i offers some great tools to make it easy to view the execution plan and trace information for a SQL statement. Prior to Oracle8i, you had to create a plan table and execute special syntax ...

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 ...

Occasionally you might want to submit SQL statements that are not queries, such as statements that drop tables or create indexes. These non-query, non-SELECT statements do not produce output. You can ...