Target group
Experienced SAS software users who want to use modern programming techniques for complex manipulation of large data
Course structure
Introduction
- DS2 overview.
- Introduction to SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS).
- Course logistics.
Getting Started
- Hello, World.
DATA Steps versus DS2 Data Programs
- Similarities to the DATA step.
- DS2 “missing” features.
New Data Types and Syntax
- Program block structuring.
- Data types.
- Automatic data type conversion.
- Expressions.
- Selected functions.
Methods and Packages
- Methods.
- User-defined packages.
- Predefined packages.
Threaded Processing
- Threading on the Compute server.
- Threading on MPP platforms.
