SAS TIPS
A semicolon is your friend,
That's how all SAS Program ends,
If you have lots of error,
Search for missing semicolon, which can end your terror.. :))
1.
Do you know: You can prevent
the SAS Datasets from Accidently being replaced…!!!
Users
can specify the NOREPLACE system
option to prevent a permanent SAS data set from being accidentally replaced
with another like-named data set.
2.
If you have a Note:
“CHARACTER STRING WAS MORE THAN 200
CHARACTERS” in Log there are fair chances that you program have unbalanced
Quotation Marks.
3.
Do you know that you
can capture the ONLY SAS Windows Screen shot using ALT + PRTSC.
4.
Do you know for sorting SAS Dataset, it requires
4
times space of your data for processing?
5.
Before submitting the
final SAS Program that use a large data, Use OBS= option to test on subset of
data to make sure your program syntax is correct.
6.
Do you know how many factors
affect the performance of your program?
7.
Do you have problem in
remembering Syntax?
Ease your efforts with use of Abbreviation. It
can also reduce the typing efforts?
Goto : Tools à Add
Abbreviation
8.
Do you know COUNT function can give you count
of number of occurrence of substring within a string?
COUNT (string, substring, optional modifiers)
9.
Do you know option compress= char or compress=yes is good
for compressing the data with large character values
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