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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