![Five strategies to eliminate passwords from your SAS programs](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
Many people mistakenly assume that just because you want to use a SAS program to access a protected resource (such as a database table), you must include the credentials for the resource inside your program. Few things cause a database administrator to lose more sleep than coming across this within