SAS Tutorial | 5 Ways to Make Your SAS Code Run Faster

Who doesn’t want code to run faster? In the SAS How To Tutorial, SAS’ Mark Jordan (aka SAS Jedi) demonstrates five techniques to get quicker results through examples that use both SAS data sets and Oracle tables. While he shows the tips in SAS Viya 2021.1, his suggestions are also relevant in SAS 9.4 and other versions of SAS Viya.

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Chapters
00:00 – Intro
00:37 – Tip #1: KEEP/DROP vs. KEEP=/DROP=
02:41 – Tip #2: WHERE vs. IF
07:26 – Tip #3: SQL vs. DATA step
09:58 – Tip #4: SQL vs DATA step for DBMS tables
11:46 – Tip #5: What if you have a CPU-bound process?

Learn more about SAS Software
◉ 10 Ways to Make Your SAS Code Run More Efficiently (article + webinar) – https://communities.sas.com/t5/Ask-th...
◉ 10 Things You’ll Love About SAS Viya (webinar) – https://www.sas.com/en_us/webinars/10...
◉ SAS Programming Community – https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Pr...
◉ SCAN function doc (SAS 9.4 and SAS Viya 3.5) – https://go.documentation.sas.com/doc/...
◉ SAS Learning Subscription – https://www.sas.com/en_us/training/pr...


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