You're reading from Mastering SAS Programming for Data Warehousing An advanced programming guide to designing and managing Data Warehouses using SAS

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789532371

Length 494 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

SAS

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Monika Wahi

Preface

1. Section 1: Managing Data in a SAS Data Warehouse

2. Chapter 1: Using SAS in a Data Mart, Data Lake, or Data Warehouse FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Reading Big Data into SAS

4. Chapter 3: Helpful PROCs for Managing Data

5. Chapter 4: Managing ETL in SAS

6. Chapter 5: Managing Data Reporting in SAS

7. Section 2: Using SAS for Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) Protocols in a Data Warehouse

8. Chapter 6: Standardizing Coding Using SAS Arrays

9. Chapter 7: Designing and Developing ETL Code in SAS

10. Chapter 8: Using Macros to Automate ETL in SAS

11. Chapter 9: Debugging and Troubleshooting in SAS

12. Section 3: Using SAS When Serving Warehouse Data to Users

13. Chapter 10: Considering the User Needs of SAS Data Warehouses

14. Chapter 11: Connecting the SAS Data Warehouse to Other Systems

15. Chapter 12: Using the ODS for Visualization in SAS

16. Assessments

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Chapter 8

In SAS, a macro variable is a blank variable that can be established and set to a particular value. By contrast, a macro is a snippet of code that can be automatically launched to run. SAS macros commonly use macro variables, but macro variables can be used outside of macros.
The NONOTES, NOSTIMER, and NOSOURCE options suppress information from the log file. NOSYNTAXCHECK prevents the automatic check of code syntax SAS does when code is run.
The reason why SAS macro code is developed in a careful, step-by-step process is that it is very hard to troubleshoot errors that occur. By creating code that runs without any macro programming, and using a step-by-step method to convert it to a macro, you can cut down on time spent troubleshooting.
Conditions are added to macros to address anomalies in underlying coding. In our case, all of our variables except one were coded according to a system, and one was coded according to another system. The conditional programming...