BASICS BEFORE STARTING SAS
- DATA-WAREHOUSING Concepts
- What is ETL
- ETL Concepts
- What is OLAP
SAS
- What is SAS
- History of SAS
- Modules available SAS
GETTING STARTED WITH SAS SYSTEMS:
- Basic operating system commands, operating system file structures
- Managing windows in SAS window environment
- Use of different kind of SAS products and how to use in SAS application.
- Difference between the SAS products.
- Why using the SAS in different sectors.
- How to use the data step to read and manipulate complex forms of data
- Write Data and Proc steps.
- Data step compile and execution
- To run SAS application on different modes
- Reading internal reading and printing l raw data into SAS
- Read any type of external raw data into SAS
- Reading raw data SAS environment into DATA SET using Input statement & advance INLIFE statement options
- Working with Data Storage in SAS libraries creation for user defined libraries and multiengine architecture
- Using a single libref to reference some or all SAS libraries reading and printing mixed records formats.
- Reading packed and zoned decimal data working with EBCDIC and ASCII data
- Reading data from data set to another data set.
- To manage the SAS window environment used with global options.
- Reducing memory requirements with BUFFNO and BUFSIZE working with SAS data set options.
- To manage existing data with controlling statements and expressions
- Creating Summary Information, SAS Functions, Transforming Data
- Changing variable types using the PUT and INPUT functions summarizing data files
- Generation data sets to create historical information SAS
- To expert data from data sets to delimiter files using with data set block
- Understand error messages in the SAS Log and debug your program
- Use with Error Handling concepts
PERFORM ITERATIVE PROCESSING ON DATA:
- Using Do loops for repetitive calculations and processing
- Using Arrays to process across an observations and processing
- Using DO WHILE and DO UNTIL statements for conditional looping
INDEXING TECHINIQUES AND USES:
- When to use indexes
- Creating and deleting indexes
- Index advantages and disadvantages
UTILITIES TO MANAGE AND WORK WITH DATASETS:
- Data using append procedure to add date values in existing dataset
- Using the update statement to update data in existing dataset.
- Using the MODIFY statements to update and modify data in place
- Merging concepts
- Data transformation
- Concatenation concept in merging
- Interleaving concept and merging
- Different kind of match merging using MERGE statement using the contribution (IN=) option in merge concept
- Using ODS concept to generate reports
BASE SAS PROCEDURES:
- Organize and sort SAS data sets and working with duplicates
- To generate listing output use print
- Comparing data sets with proc compare
- To create user defined informat and format statements use format
- Using proc copy to copy data sets
- Importance of contents procedure
- Reading data from dataset for reporting use report
- Using Proc Datasets to modify data set structure, attributes, how to use permanent formats, Setting up Integrity Constraints to maintain clean data and Setting up indexes
- Role of ODS concepts to reporting SAS output
- To generate SAS output in different panels like RTF, HTML,PDF and XML Using ODS How to use PROC SQL to retrieve INFORMATION from their Data
- Introduction to SQL Concepts
- The origin of SQL and why we use it.
- Create new tables, indexes , views and reports
SIMPLE QUERIES
- Understanding to SQL Concepts
- How to specify columns and subset rows
- Using functions to summarize and group data
- Ordering data and formatting out
- Performing group analysis, remerging and sub queries
JOINING DATA
- What are Cartesian Products, what is join
- Inner, FULL, OUTER, LEFT and RIGHT Joins
- Set Operator us such as union and intersection joining multiple tables
- PROC SQL as compared to the data step
WORKING WITH TABLES, VIEWS AND indexes
- Creating Indexes and table in SQL
- Why we use Views in SQL
- Performance and space ISSUES
ADVANCED SQL Topics
- HOW TO USE SAS MACROS IN SQL
- How dictionary table and views can simplify programming SQL options
- How to retrieve Raw data different from DATABASES to SAS environment using SQL Statements
- To create table in different databases using SAS sql statement
- To manage in different databases using SAS Sql Statements
PASS THROUGH FACILITY
- Uses of pass through facility
- How to communicate with other database like Access, Oracle
- To control and manage other databases from the SAS.
- To access required data from other databases
- To create DATAWAREHOUSING environment
Basic Statistical Procedures (SAS/STAT) and reporting Procedure
- To summary statistical Analysis Summary Procedure
- Producing Statistical with means Procedure
- Testing Categorical Data with FREQ PROCEDURE
- Reporting areas in SAS
- To generate report use with Proc Report
- Examining Data with Univarate Procedure
How to work with SAS/ACCESS & SAS /Connect
- To import data from different PC files use import procedure
- To export data from different source use access procedure
- To export data from datasets to different PC files use export Procedures
- Uses of DBLoad procedure and how to work
- To transport datasets one environment to another environment and one version to another version to another version (windows to UNIX) use with cprot and import procedures
- How to use Upload Procedure
- How to use Download Procedure
How to work with MACRO LANGUAGE INTRODUCTION to MACROS
- How the SAS macros Language Works
- What is the role of macro in SAS
- Introduction to tokening, compiling and executing a SAS program
- How the macro Processor Works
Applying MACRO VARIABLES in a SAS PROGRAM
- Applying automatic macro variables
- Designing customized macro variables
- Submitting the macro variables in SAS Programming
- Displaying MACRO VARIABLES VALUES in the SAS log
- Applying quoting functions with macros
Incorporating SAS Macros in the DATA STEP
- Designing macro variables during Data step Execution
- In directing referencing Macro variables
- Resolving Macro variables during DATA STEP EXECUTION
- Under staining the functionality and application of the SYSMGET function and SYSMPUT routine
- Using the INTO clause to build macro variables during PROC SQL execution
RUNNING MACRO PROGRAMS IN SAS SOFTWARE
- Designing and implementing simple macros and reduce customizing SAS application
- To Develop Reusable Application use with MACRO
- Specifying conditional coding inside a macro
- The macro compilation and execution processes in the macro processor SAS system options used for debugging macros
- Reviewing error and warning log messages displayed by the macro processor
- Designing and using macros containing parameters within them
- Using positional and keyword parameters in macro calls
- Difference macros and symbol table Hierarchies
- Concepts in MACRO FUNCTIONS, MACRO INTERFACE AND MACRO Quoting Functions and how to use MACRO CODING.
Techniques for Storing MACROS
- Understanding the auto call feature
- Permanently storing and using compiled macros
- Writing Efficient macro programs
DEBUGGING SAS PROGRAMS
- SAS programs that work
- Fixing Programs that don’t work
- Searching for the missing semicolon
- Input statement reaching past the end of line
- Lost card
- Invalid Data
- How to handle different kind of SAS errors
- Missing VALUES were Generated
- Numeric values have been converted to Character
- WRONG results but no error message
- The data step Debugger
- SAS Truncated a character variable
- SAS stops in the middle of the job
- SAS runs pout of memory or disk space
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