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SAS Programming 3: Advanced Techniques and Efficiencies
This course is for SAS programmers who prepare data for analysis.
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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
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
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- 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.
All the benefits of the classroom without the travel
- Join the classroom right from your desktop
- Led by an expert instructor who can virtually look over your shoulder
- Ask questions and get answers in real-time
- Access the latest software via a virtual lab
- Receive 20 business days' access to a recording of your course
- Discuss, share, exchange ideas with participants from different countries
Training Features
- benchmark computer resource usage
- control memory, I/O, and CPU resources
- create and use indexes
- combine data horizontally
- use hash and hiter DATA step component objects and arrays as lookup tables
- compress SAS data sets
- sample your SAS data sets
- create and use SAS data views
- safely reduce the length of numeric variables
- create user-defined functions and informats.
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
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- areas of support from SAS
- other courses to consider
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