Tips, Tricks, & SAS® Techniques

Audience

SAS programmers of all levels will pick up something new in this class.

Duration

2 days

Abstract

An eclectic mix of SAS tips and techniques that our consultants have used in contract programming. It will consist of many short examples from a wide variety of topics presented in a lecture format, along with short exercises.

Objectives

• Learn unique options and programming techniques
• Discover small and clever tips from a wide variety of topics
• Learn unique tricks to improve code
• Learn cool uses of common SAS procedures, functions, and statements
• Have every student leave with at least a few clever tips

Outline

• Naming conventions for files, programs, and variables
• Techniques to validate input data
• Cleaning data values and finding unique keys
• Techniques to work with periodic report processing
• Percentage problems
• Methods to compare and audit data sets
• Useful functions
• Macro and format tips
• Verify the existence of files and SAS data sets
• Data step tips
• Useful tricks to debug code
• IBM Mainframe utilities
• SAS as a programmer’s utility