SAS/ACCESS views and DATA step views are similar to PROC SQL views in that they are both data definitions of member type VIEW. SAS/ACCESS views describe data in DBMS tables from other software vendors ...

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

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.

In the original proposal for the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: A generic tool could perhaps be made to allow any database which uses a commercial DBMS to be displayed as a hypertext view. We ...