I have written an application that takes in a fixed-width file (thanks in no small part to advice I recieved in a seperate thread) and then dissasembles each line, runs a fairly meaty SQL SELECT query ...

To update the data, you can specify view descriptors in the PROC SQL INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE statements. Here is a summary of these PROC SQL statements: DELETE deletes records from a CA-DATACOM/DB ...