Specifies whether to enable multiple performance-related options.
| Valid in: | DATA and PROC steps (when accessing data that is in an external data source) |
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| Category: | Data Set Control |
| Default: | LIBNAME option value |
| Data source: | Google BigQuery |
| Note: | Support for this option was added in SAS 9.4M9. Support was added for SAS 9.4M8 in December 2025. |
| See: | IGNORE_FEDSQL_OBJECTS= data set option, MODE= LIBNAME option, READ_MODE= data set option, SCANSTRINGCOLUMNS= data set option |
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specifies that you want to enable performance-related options.
specifies that you want to use default values for performance-related options.
When you set MODE=PERFORMANCE, you automatically set the following values for these data set options:
To override any of these values, explicitly specify that option and assign a different value. For example, if you specify MODE=PERFORMANCE and SCANSTRINGCOLUMNS=NO, then the SCANSTRINGCOLUMNS= data set option is disabled.