Wednesday May 12 SAP announced it has signed an agreement to buy database software maker Sybase for $5.8 billion. This acquisition is expected to diversify SAP’s product line, expanding its business ...

TEXT stores character data of variable length up to two gigabytes. SAS supports the TEXT data type provided in SYBASE; however, SAS only allows a maximum of 32,767 bytes of character data.

However, SYBASE database is generally set for case sensitivity, and special consideration should be given to the names of objects (such as tables and columns) when they are to be used in SAS software ...