Specifies the number of shared memory buffers to use for transferring data from SAS to Teradata.
| Valid in: | DATA and PROC steps (when creating and appending to DBMS tables using SAS/ACCESS software) |
|---|---|
| Category: | Data Set Control |
| Default: | 2 |
| Restriction: | Starting in SAS 9.4M9, this option is no longer used. |
| Data source: | Teradata |
| See: | MBUFSIZE= data set option, MULTILOAD= data set option |
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a numeric value between 1 and 8 that specifies the number of buffers used for transferring data from SAS to Teradata.
BUFFERS= specifies the number of data buffers to use for transferring data from SAS to Teradata. When you use the MULTILOAD= data set option, data is transferred from SAS to Teradata using shared memory segments. The default shared memory buffer size is 64K. The default number of shared memory buffers used for the transfer is 2.
Use BUFFERS= to vary the number of buffers for data transfer from 1 to 8. Specify the MBUFSIZE= data set option to vary the size of the shared memory buffers from the size of each data row up to 1MB.