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SAS Programming 3: Advanced
 Duration
3 days
 Delivery
Classroom
 Course code
PRG3
 Online registration
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Techniques and Efficiencies
This course is for SAS programmers
®
who prepare data for analysis. The
comparisons of manipulation techniques
and resource cost benefits are designed
to help programmers choose the most
appropriate technique for their data
situation.
Learn how to:
• compare various SAS programming
techniques that enable you to
• control memory, I/O, and CPU
resources
• create and use indexes
• combine data horizontally and
vertically
• use hash and hiter DATA step
component objects, arrays, and
formats as lookup tables
• compress SAS data sets
• sample your SAS data sets.
Who should attend:
Experienced SAS programmers.
Prerequisites:
This course is not appropriate for new
SAS software users. Before attend-
ing this course, you should have at
least nine months of SAS program-
ming experience and should have
completed the SAS Programming 2:
Data Manipulation Techniques course.
Specifically, you should be able to do
the following:
• understand your operating system
file structures and perform basic
operating system tasks
• understand programming logic
concepts
• understand the compilation and
execution process of the DATA step
• use different varieties of input to create
SAS data sets from external files
• use SAS software to access SAS
libraries
• create and use SAS date values
• read, concatenate, merge, match-
merge, and interleave SAS data sets
• use the DROP=, KEEP=, and
RENAME= data set options
• create multiple output data sets
• use array processing and DO loops
to process data iteratively
• use SAS functions to perform data
manipulation and transformations.
Course contents:
Introduction
• course logisitics
• measuring efficiencies
• SAS DATA step processing.
Controlling I/O Processing and
Memory
• controlling I/O
• controlling data set size
• compressing SAS data sets
• controlling memory (self-study)
• controlling the page size and the
number of available buffers (self-
study).
Accessing Observations
• creating an index
• using an index
• creating a sample data set (self-
study).
Introduction to Lookup Techniques
• introduction to lookup techniques
• in-memory lookup techniques
• disk storage techniques.
See over for Training Path
Using DATA Step Arrays Combining Data Horizontally Customising Your SAS Session ®

(self-study)
• using one-dimensional arrays • DATA step merges and SQL
• using multidimensional arrays procedure joins • introduction

• loading a multidimensional array from • using an index to combine data • editing the configuration file
a SAS data set. • combining summary and detail data • creating an autoexec.sas file
• combining data conditionally (self- • using the SAS Registry .
Using DATA Step Hash and Hiter
study).
Objects Learning More
• introduction Sorting SAS Data Sets ®
• conclusions
• using hash object methods • using the SORT procedure • SAS resources
• loading a hash object with data from • BY-group processing (self-study). • beyond this course.
a SAS data set
• using the DATA step hiter object Programmer Efficiency Software addressed:
• using a hash object for chained • introduction This course addresses the following
lookups (self-study). • writing flexible programs (combining software product:
raw data files vertically) • Base SAS . ®

Creating and Using Formats

• creating views
This course is appropriate for learn-
• using formats as lookup tables
• using FILE and PUT statements to ers who are using SAS 8 or SAS 9 ® ®

• using a picture format (self-study). create a SAS program file software.

• using the FCMP procedure (self-
study).

Training Path for Programmers/Analysts

For SAS Programmers

SAS® Certified Base

Programmer Fast Track

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SAS® Programming 1: SAS® Programming 2: Data SAS® Enterprise Guide

Essentials Manipulation Techniques for Experienced SAS®
Programmers
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SAS® Programming 3: SAS® Macro Language 2:
SAS® Macro Language 1:
SAS® SQL 1: Essentials Advanced Techniques and Developing Macro
Essentials
Efficiencies Applications

For SAS Enterprise Guide Users

SAS® Programming
Essentials for Experienced
SAS® Enterprise Guide® Users
SAS® Enterprise Guide® 1:
Querying and Reporting

SAS® Enterprise Guide® 2:

Advanced Tasks and Querying
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