SAS Programming 3: Advanced Techniques and Efficiencies

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July 16 - 18, 2018

November 28 - 30, 2018

*Please Note: Completing the registration form will result in the generation of an invoice. Payment is expected within 30 days of course completion. Cancellation less than two weeks prior to class start date will result in a cancellation fee equal to 50% of the registration cost. No Exceptions.

Course Overview

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.

This course can help prepare you for the following certification exam(s): SAS Advanced Programming for SAS 9.

Learn how to compare various SAS programming techniques that enable you to

• benchmark computer resource usage
• control memory, I/O, and CPU resources
• create and use indexes
• combine data horizontally
• use hash and hiter DATA step component objects and arrays as lookup tables
• compress SAS data sets
• sample your SAS data sets
• create and use SAS data views
• safely reduce the length of numeric variables
• create user-defined functions and informats.

Who should attend
Experienced SAS programmers

Prerequisites

This course is not appropriate for beginning SAS software users. Before attending this course, you should have at least nine months of SAS programming 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 processes 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 one-dimensional array processing and DO loops to process data iteratively
• use SAS functions to perform data manipulation and transformations
• use the FORMAT procedure to create user-defined formats.

This course addresses Base SAS software.This course is appropriate for students who are using SAS 9 software.

 Pricing

SAS Programming 3: $1,950

Course Outline

Note: This course will last all day for the length of the course. Most classes will start at 9:00AM and end at 5:00PM.