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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Summary

Although this chapter was specifically about visualization using the SAS ODS, it echoes two basic themes we see throughout this book. The first theme is that many believe that SAS's power is in its PROCs, its data step language, and its capabilities with arrays, macro variables, and macros. These features have been used over the years to develop extensive print reports in SAS using the ODS (not to mention complex ETL code). Now, the same basic features are being used to serve SAS data to the web. SAS is a company that has constantly innovated throughout its life, creating new products and capabilities, such as SAS/ACCESS, and the ability to connect to cloud storage in Snowflake. It is likely that SAS will continue on this route, developing new subcomponents and products to address new technological challenges.

A second theme that runs throughout this chapter and this book is that while SAS continues to innovate, the direction of its innovation seems misguided in some...