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.

When a PROC SQL query contains subqueries or inline views, the innermost query is evaluated first. In this example, data is retrieved from the SYBASE EMPLOYEES table and returned to the subquery for ...

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.