SAS Online Training

SAS Online Training

SAS Online Training Course Content:

BASICS BEFORE STARTING SAS:

• DATAWARE HOSING Concepts

• What is ETL

• ETL Concepts

• What is OLAP

• SAS: SAS Online Training

• 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 multi-engine 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 TROUGH FACILITY:

• Uses of pass through facility

• How to communicate with other database like Access, Oracle

• To control and manage other databases fro 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 cimport 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: SAS Online Training

• 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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