SAS/ACCESS

Google BigQuery LIBNAME Engine

Updates to Google BigQuery security practices result in changes to supported files for the CRED_PATH= LIBNAME option. For more information, see CRED_PATH= LIBNAME Statement Option in Accessing External Data Sources with SAS®Viya Workbench.

Parquet LIBNAME Engine

Documentation now includes a caution for authentication to Microsoft Azure. The caution shows a coding practice that is required to ensure that sensitive Azure credentials are blotted out in the SAS log. For more information, see Authenticating to Microsoft Azure for Parquet in Accessing External Data Sources with SAS®Viya Workbench.

PostgreSQL LIBNAME Engine

SAS/ACCESS now automatically sets UseDeclareFetch=1 for LIBNAME connections to PostgreSQL. For more information, see Managing Memory with Large Amounts of Data in Accessing External Data Sources with SAS®Viya Workbench.

Last updated: September 29, 2026