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

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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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Accessing data in SAS

This section covers how accessing data in SAS changed over the years:

First, SAS data storage moved from punch cards to mainframes.
Next, the invention of personal computers (PCs) led to reconfiguring how SAS data was accessed.
Consequently, reading data into SAS from external data files became more common.

In this section, we will discuss how to read data in SAS from an external file, as well as the opportunities and limitations of how SAS processes data.

Upgrading to mainframes

In 1979, Databank of New Zealand adapted SAS to run under IBM's VM/CMS system using IBM's disk operating system (DOS), thus solving the punch card problem and establishing SAS as mainframe software that was remotely hosted. This represented essentially the second rewrite of SAS since its 1976 rewrite. This upgrade made SAS more easily accessible to more customers. It also facilitated the ability for SAS to include more sophisticated components to...