I have very little experience with using this but I have found that if you
have SAS Access for PC Products licensed,   just as you can issue a libname
statement pointing to an Excel workbook, you can also issue one for an
Access database. Try doing this and then look at your SAS explorer window
where you will see an icon for the Access file and will then be able to
look at the Access tables as if they were SAS data sets.

Nat Wooding
Environmental Specialist III
Dominion, Environmental Biology
4111 Castlewood Rd
Richmond, VA 23234
Phone:804-271-5313, Fax: 804-271-2977



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If you haven't already, export the data out of Access asap as mdb
operations tend to be several orders of magnitude slower than SAS. Export
to tab or csv and import into SAS. The export procedure from Access is
relatively painless. If you've already done that and are still facing
problems you should provide more info on variable formats and code used as
what you're doing should by no means represent a problem for SAS.

Rgds


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