Connecting to SAS Data Sets

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to SAS Data Sets and configure any necessary connection properties. You can also configure cmdlet capabilities through the available Connection properties, from data modeling to firewall traversal. The Advanced Settings section shows how to set up more advanced configurations and troubleshoot connection errors.

Connecting from PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets PowerShell Module for SAS Data Sets provides a familiar way to interact with SAS Data Sets from PowerShell. The cmdlets provide a standard PowerShell interface and an SQL interface to live data. The CData cmdlets enable you to work with SAS Data Sets using standard PowerShell objects; you can chain the cmdlets to each other or other cmdlets in pipelines. The cmdlets also support PowerShell debug streams.

Data Manipulation with Cmdlets

See Establishing a Connection to learn how to get started with the Connect-SASDataSets cmdlet. You can then pass the SASDataSetsConnection object returned to other cmdlets for accessing data:

• Select-SASDataSets
• Add-SASDataSets
• Remove-SASDataSets

Executing SQL from PowerShell

You can execute any SQL query with the Invoke-SASDataSets cmdlet.

Accessing Debug Output from Streams

See Capturing Errors and Logging to obtain the debug output through PowerShell streams.

PowerShell Version Support

The standard cmdlets are supported in PowerShell 2, 3, 4, and 5.

SAS Data Sets Version Support

The cmdlet reads tabular data (observations and variables) from local SAS7BDAT files created for SAS versions 7.0-9.4 to enable bidirectional SQL access to SAS Data Sets data.