Target group
SAS programmers and business analysts
Course structure
Essentials
- Setting up for this course.
- Overview of SAS Foundation.
- Course logistics.
- Course data files.
- Introducing the Structured Query Language.
- Overview of the SQL procedure.
- Exploring tables.
- Specifying columns.
PROC SQL Fundamentals
- Subsetting data.
- Presenting data.
- Summarizing data.
- Creating and managing tables.
- Using DICTIONARY tables.
SQL Joins
- Introduction to SQL joins.
- Inner joins.
- Outer joins.
- Complex SQL joins.
Subqueries
- Noncorrelated subqueries.
- Correlated subqueries.
- In-line views.
- Creating views with the SQL procedure.
- Subqueries in the SELECT clause.
- Remerging summary statistics.
Set Operators
- Introduction to set operators.
- The INTERSECT operator.
- The EXCEPT operator.
- The UNION operator.
- The OUTER UNION operator.
Using and Creating Macro Variables in SQL
- Interfacing PROC SQL with the macro language.
- Creating data-driven macro variables with a query.
- Using macro variables in SQL.
Accessing DBMS Data with SAS/ACCESS
- Overview of SAS/ACCESS technology.
- SQL pass-through facility.
- SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME statement.
- PROC FedSQL.
