SAS 9.1.3 Language Reference: Concepts, Third Edition, Volumes 1 and 2

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SAME-AND operator 205

SAS

Base SAS and 3

concepts 10

SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME statement 573

embedding in PROC SQL views 574

SAS/ACCESS software

definition 573

SAS/ACCESS views 548

passwords with 597

SAS ARM interface 226, 228

SAS catalogs

See catalogs

SAS data files

See data files

SAS data libraries

See data libraries

SAS data sets

See data sets

SAS data views 5, 481

See also data views

as DATA step output 13

input to SAS programs 12

SAS Explorer window

list of available styles 186

SAS file types 468

SAS files 4

concepts 10

SAS formatted destinations 181, 182

SAS indexes

See indexes

SAS language 4

components of 4

data sets 5

DBMS files 6

elements 6, 25

external files 5

files 4

macro facility 6

SAS log

See log

SAS name lists 87

SAS output

See output

SAS processing 11

DATA step 13

input data sources 12

PROC steps 14

SAS registry

See registry

SAS regular expression (RX) functions and CALL routines 45

SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine 607

SAS sessions 7

batch mode 9

customizing 9

customizing windowing environment 10

default system option settings 9

executing statements automatically 9

interactive line mode 8

noninteractive line mode 8

starting 7

types of 7

windowing environment 7

SAS statements

See statements

SAS system libraries 474

SAS utilities

for data libraries 477

SAS windowing environment 7, 283, 307

assigning passwords with 594

customizing 10

drop-down menus 285

Explorer window 291

features 284

help 287, 288

keyboard equivalents, z/OS 284

Keys window 304

Log window 299

New Library window 302

Output window 300

pop-up menus 286

Program Editor window 298

Properties window 303

Results window 301

toolbars 287

window commands 288

windows 288, 290

SAS XML LIBNAME engine 609

SASESOCK engine 607

SASFILE statement

I/O optimization and 219

SASHELP library 476

registry files in 236

SASUSER library 476

registry files in 236

SASUSER registry

backing up 239

Sasuser.Profile catalog 567

SASXREG file 238

scientific notation 90

numeric constants in 113

SCL

creating integrity constraints 513

enabling ARM macro execution 66

search time

reducing for executables 220

seed values 43

selection lists 190

destinations for output objects 191

semantic errors 150

sequential access

combining data sets 394

engines 604

sequential data libraries 476

sequential engines 607

SET statement

concatenating data sets 402

interleaving data sets 405

one-to-one reading 409

shifted intervals 144

sign bit 91

simple expressions 110

simple indexes 520

SMP machines 223

SMTP e-mail 623

statements for controlling 624

system options for 623

sorted data sets 485

sorting column values 315

sorting files 296

sorting indexed data files 537

sorting observations

for BY- group processing 379

sounds-like operator 205

SPD Engine 607

special characters 16

special missing values 106

special SAS name lists 87

SPSS engine 608

SQL

concatenating data sets 404

SQL procedure

creating indexes 527

creating integrity constraints 513

list of available styles 186

SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility 575

standard data 359

statements 69

changing DATA step execution sequence 338

combining data sets with 398

DATA step statements 69

declarative 69

default execution in DATA step 337

executable 69

executing automatically 9

global, definition 70

options compared with system options 76

step boundaries 340

word spacing in 17

statistics

performance statistics 213

step boundaries 340

STIMER system option 214

stored compiled programs 4, 551

CPU performance and 220

creating 553

examples 553, 557, 558

executing 554

global statements for execution 556

printing source code 556

processing 552

quality control application 558

redirecting output 556

restrictions and requirements 552

uses for 551

vs. DATA step views 544, 558

style attributes 184

definition 186

style definitions

definition of 185

procedures with 186

SAS-supplied 186

style elements

definition 185

subkeys

registry and 237

subsetting IF statement

vs. WHERE expression 211

syntax check mode 156

enabling 157

syntax errors 148

%SYSFUNC function

specifying formats 28

SYSRC autocall macro 428

system libraries 474

SASHELP 476

SASUSER 476

USER 475

WORK 474

system options 71

altering log contents with 166

ARM 226, 228

changing settings 73

compared with data set options 76

compared with statement options 76

customizing log appearance with 166

default settings 9, 71

determining how value was set 72

determining settings in effect 71

duration of settings 74

for error handling 158

getting descriptive information about 73

interaction with data set options 26, 75

order of precedence 75

restricted options 72

syntax 71

Universal Printing 273

system performance 213

calculating data set size 221

CPU performance 220

memory usage 220

optimizing I/O 215

performance statistics 214