SAS : Library

– Library – Databases –

  1 Permanent – it is a place where we store our permanent tables.

  2. Temporary – it is a place where we store our temporary tables.

  how many data types we have in SAS?

  cntrl + ? – comment

  1. Numeric

  2. Character

  3. Date

  x = 123;

  x1 = ‘123’;

  name = ‘Rahul’ ;

>  what rules we have to follow while giving a table name

  1. table name cannot starts with numeric

  12emplyee   employee12

  2. no space should be given between table name

  3. no special characters   @ # $ %

  first code

  creating a table with one variable, name as x

  ; – end of the statement

  SAS is not a case sensitive language

  observation is equals to row

  dataset is nothing but table

Code  

sashelp.cars

  cards/datalines – helping us to give the values

DATA sashelp.customer;

x = 12;

y = ‘abc’;

run;

  new1 is dataset

  entire query from Data to run is called datastep

data new1;

input name$ city$ age;

datalines;

Rahul Pune 29

Anjali Pune 24

Arun Delhi 28

Priyanka Delhi 26

;

run;

  connect to oracle (username = ‘abc123’,  password = ‘abc#23’, path = ‘db2’)

  customer

  1st block – _____________ 

  2nd block – __________

data new1;

input name$ 13. city$ age;

datalines;

Rahul_Verma Pune 29

AnjaliGupta Pune 24

ArunChauhan Delhi 28

Priyanka Delhi 26;

run;

  The default length of character variable is 8