SAS Programming 3: Advanced Techniques and Efficiencies

This course is for SAS programmers who prepare data for analysis.

Duration 3 Days
Certificate SAS Global
Language English


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Course Description

compare various SAS programming techniques that enable you to The comparisons of manipulation techniques and resource cost benefits are designed to help programmers choose the most appropriate technique for their data situation.

About Program

This course is for SAS programmers who prepare data for analysis. The comparisons of manipulation techniques and resource cost benefits are designed to help programmers choose the most appropriate technique for their data situation.

This course can help prepare you for the following certification exam(s): SAS Advanced Programming for SAS 9.

Format of Training

Live Web Classroom

Training is Led by an expert instructor live online using live web training platform, and this are not pre recorded lectures. Trainer can virtually look over your shoulder. Discuss, share, exchange ideas with students from different countries. 

Taste of Live Web - is a perfect platform for indivudals who fear online training. SAS® gives an opportunity to all the registrants to have a closer look at different courses given below with a blend of Online Learning. 

All the benefits of the classroom without the travel:

Classroom training options include courses offered in our regional training centers or via our Live Web classroom.

Taught by certified instructors at High-Tech facilities across the country:

  • A SAS expert at your side.
  • Focused learning away from the office
  • Networking opportunities
  • State-of-the-art facilities
  • Electronic course notes downloadable to your device and permission to print
  • Business Knowledge Series: in-depth courses on the latest business topics
  • We offer Connected Classes! Watch for courses in Cary, New York, Arlington, Dallas and San Francisco that connect remote students via our Live Web classroom.

Prerequisite

This course is not appropriate for beginning SAS software users. Before attending this course, you should have at least nine months of SAS programming experience and should have completed the SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniquescourse. Specifically, you should be able to do the following:

  • understand your operating system file structures and perform basic operating system tasks
  • understand programming logic concepts
  • understand the compilation and execution processes of the DATA step
  • use different varieties of input to create SAS data sets from external files
  • use SAS software to access SAS libraries
  • create and use SAS date values
  • read, concatenate, merge, match-merge, and interleave SAS data sets
  • use the DROP=, KEEP=, and RENAME= data set options
  • create multiple output data sets
  • use one-dimensional array processing and DO loops to process data iteratively
  • use SAS functions to perform data manipulation and transformations
  • use the FORMAT procedure to create user-defined formats.

This course addresses Base SAS software.

This course is appropriate for students who are using SAS 9 software.

Training Features

  • query and subset data
  • summarize and present data
  • combine tables, including complex joins and merges
  • create and modify table views and indexes
  • replace multiple DATA and PROC steps with one SQL query.

Course Curriculum

Introduction

  • course logistics
  • creating course data files

Efficient SAS Programming

  • identifying computer resources related to efficiency

Controlling I/O Processing and Memory

  • SAS DATA step processing
  • controlling I/O
  • reducing the length of numeric variables
  • compressing SAS data sets
  • using SAS views

Accessing Observations

  • access methods
  • accessing observations by number
  • creating an index
  • using an index

DATA Step Arrays

  • introduction to lookup techniques
  • one-dimensional arrays
  • multidimensional arrays
  • loading a multidimensional array from a SAS data set

DATA Step Hash and Hiter Objects

  • hash object methods
  • loading a hash object from a SAS data set
  • DATA step hiter object

Combining Data Horizontally

  • DATA step merges and SQL procedure joins
  • using an index to combine data
  • combining summary and detail data
  • combining data conditionally

User-Defined Functions and Formats

  • user-defined functions
  • user-defined formats

Learning More

  • areas of support from SAS
  • other courses to consider

Project

  • SAS DATA step processing
  • controlling I/O
  • reducing the length of numeric variables
  • compressing SAS data sets
  • using SAS views

FAQs

Each exam challenges candidates to apply specific knowledge they have acquired through SAS software training and/or job experience. Computer-based in format, SAS Global Certification exams comprise multiple-choice and/or short-answer questions, depending on the exam. Exams are generally scheduled through Pearson VUE but are also held at various locations around the world on a pre-scheduled basis. Candidates are allotted varying time limits to complete the exam, depending on which exam is taken. Specific exam content and passing criteria are located within each exam. To encourage your feedback, SAS Global Certification exams include a feature that allows candidates to comment on specific test questions. Your opinions are important to us and are a critical component in test development. Additionally, SAS Global Certification requires candidates to accept the terms of the SAS Institute Inc. Certification Program CandidatCancele Agreement before taking a certification exam.

Short-answer questions require you type your answer in a text box, rather than select your answer from four options. Typically, you will provide a numeric answer or a short section of SAS programming code. When entering code, case is ignored, and all variations of SAS syntax that correctly complete the program are accepted as correct.

Course Fees

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24000

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Classroom

  

  

30000

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