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LIBNAME statement Oracle examples in SAS



SAS Admins use LIBNAME Statement to test the connectivity to the configured database. We can test the connection to the database from OS level and LIBNAME statement in SAS Enterprise Guide (EG). Here I will explain in detail about how to run LIBNAME statement in SAS EG and the initial configuration needed to run the LIBNAME statement successfully.

LIBNAME Statement Oracle:

To run a LIBNAME state for Oracle database you need the following:

  • ·         Username and password of the Oracle database
  • ·         SID/Schema/Path of the Oracle database

Example:
Let username is winter and password is summer and SID is CHSLKJE.

For above given information, Libname statement will be:
LIBNAME test ORACLE user="winter" password="summer" path="CHSLKJE" schema="CHSLKJE";

Libname statement Oracle in SAS EG
In above example, test is libref. Libref can be any name of your choice. Don’t forget to add quotes, it throws error.

LIBNAME Statement throws error if you don’t do the following:

There should be entry in tnsnames.ora file in your host machine. The entry will be having schema name, ip address and port number. It should be like below image inside tnsnames.ora file.
Example:
tnsname.ora file opened in SSH client PuTTy
In the above image, Service Name is the schema name or SID. Hostname can be ip address or the name server. You should get the correct port number from DB team. 

Your host machine should have connectivity to the Oracle host machine. The ip address you see in above machine is the Oracle host machine. To check the connection you can use telnet command.

Example:
telnet 112.48.69.83 6482

For a successful connection it will give below output:
Trying 112.48.69.83...
Connected to 112.48.69.83
Escape character is '^]'.

The below output means failure:

  • Connection refused
  • Name or Service not known

If this fails here, you won’t be able to run LIBNAME statement successfully. Because, LIBNAME statement uses this Oracle configuration file tnsname.ora to connect to their database machine.

You can comment below if you face any issues while running LIBNAME statement for Oracle connectivity.

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