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SAS Viya for SAS users

SAS Viya is the latest enhancement of the SAS Platform. When you are SAS9 programmer you can continue using your SAS9 syntax in SAS Viya. However, if you want to take advantage of capabilities such as parallel processing or in memory processing offered by SAS Viya, you need to know a little bit more than SAS9 syntax.
This tips and tricks is designed for people who already know SAS9 and want to learn the basics of SAS programming in SAS Viya.

Details

In this tips and tricks, we will first talk about the differences between SAS9 and SAS Viya. Then we will dive into the main statements and procs so that you will be able to work easily in this new environment. More precisely, we will see how to :

  • Create CAS Session
  • Create SAS 9 library and CAS library
  • Load/unload data in Memory
  • Save in memory data
  • Use DATA Step in CAS
  • Use PROC FEDSQL in CAS
  • Other SAS procedures supported by CAS

Prerequisites

You have some SAS experience in SAS 9 and are familiar with Data Steps and PROC SQL.


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