The surprise came when Microsoft SQL Server was announced as the DBMS of the year for 2016 by DB-Engines.com. For the 12 months of 2016, SQL Server experienced a steep rise in popularity as a search ...

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 ...

The SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility is an extension of the SQL procedure that enables you to send DBMS-specific statements to a DBMS and to retrieve DBMS data.

It’s in this context that I want to make a few observations about the DBMS market. This is especially relevant right now, as there is a line of thinking that SQL databases are going away and DBAs will ...