The following examples use the SQL procedure to query, update, and create DBMS tables. Querying a DBMS Table This example uses the SQL procedure to query the ORACLE table PAYROLL. The PROC SQL query ...

The DICTIONARY tables component is specified in the FROM clause of a SELECT statement. DICTIONARY is a reserved libref for use only in PROC SQL. Data from DICTIONARY tables are generated at run time.

Replace "new_table" with the name of the table to create, and replace "old_table" with the name of the table to select from. The INTO clause behaves the same as CREATE TABLE in other SQL environments.