Introduction to SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB

This section describes SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB. For a list of SAS/ACCESS features that are available in this interface, see SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB: Supported Features.

Microsoft OLE DB is an application programming interface (API) that provides access to data that can be in a database table, an e-mail file, a text file, or another type of file. This SAS/ACCESS interface accesses data from these sources through OLE DB data providers such as Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle.