SAS Warehouse Administrator 2.3 Metadata API Reference, 2nd edition

✍ Scribed by The SAS Technical Team Writers

• Publisher: SAS Publishing
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Using this reference, you can learn to write SAS Component Language (SCL) applications that publish HTML pages containing the current metadata for a data warehouse, change pathnames in metadata, add columns to a table, update a column attribute, add tables and other objects defined by metadata, and use the API in a SAS macro to generate a LIBNAME statement.

✦ Table of Contents

SAS/Warehouse Administrator 2.3 Metadata API......Page 1
Title Page
......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Changes and Enhancements......Page 6
What is Metadata?......Page 9
How the Metadata API Works......Page 10
Identifying Metadata......Page 12
Reading Metadata: A Simple Example......Page 13
Metadata Repositories......Page 15
Setting the Active Metadata Repository......Page 16
Where Metadata API Classes and SLISTS are Stored......Page 17
Overview of the Metadata API Class......Page 18
Metadata Property List......Page 19
Index to Metadata API Methods......Page 21
Overview of SAS/Warehouse Administrator Metadata Types......Page 56
Metadata Type Inheritance......Page 57
Relationships Among Metadata Types......Page 58
Writing Metadata......Page 64
Overview of the Process Editor......Page 66
Reading Process Flow Metadata......Page 67
Reading Job Metadata......Page 70
Reading Job Flow Metadata......Page 71
Reading Job Hierarchy Metadata......Page 73
Using Icon Information......Page 74
Index to SAS/Warehouse Administrator Metadata Types......Page 75
General Identifying Information......Page 78
Read Metadata Code Sample......Page 278
Write Metadata Code Sample......Page 282
SAS/Warehouse Administrator Metadata Type Inheritance Tree......Page 286
Recommended Reading......Page 290
Glossary......Page 292
Index......Page 300