The solution is to use SQL views, materialized views, or create a new table that contains only the filtered data the user needs.

Microsoft SQL Server's relational engine has offered new instrumentation that improves by light years with each new release. The introduction of Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) in SQL Server 2005 ...

To run your SQL Pass-Through views for the MS SQL Server, you are encouraged, but not required, to create a data source name. You can use the ODBC administrator to create it. Refer to Data Source ...

PROC SQL views can both read and update the data that they reference. PROC SQL supports more types of WHERE clauses than are available in DATA step processing and has a CONNECT TO component that ...