You're reading from Mastering SAS Programming for Data Warehousing An advanced programming guide to designing and managing Data Warehouses using SAS

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789532371

Length 494 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

SAS

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Monika Wahi

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Managing Data in a SAS Data Warehouse

2. Chapter 1: Using SAS in a Data Mart, Data Lake, or Data Warehouse FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Reading Big Data into SAS

4. Chapter 3: Helpful PROCs for Managing Data

5. Chapter 4: Managing ETL in SAS

6. Chapter 5: Managing Data Reporting in SAS

7. Section 2: Using SAS for Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) Protocols in a Data Warehouse

8. Chapter 6: Standardizing Coding Using SAS Arrays

9. Chapter 7: Designing and Developing ETL Code in SAS

10. Chapter 8: Using Macros to Automate ETL in SAS

11. Chapter 9: Debugging and Troubleshooting in SAS

12. Section 3: Using SAS When Serving Warehouse Data to Users

13. Chapter 10: Considering the User Needs of SAS Data Warehouses

14. Chapter 11: Connecting the SAS Data Warehouse to Other Systems

15. Chapter 12: Using the ODS for Visualization in SAS

16. Assessments

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Considerations when reporting SAS warehouse data

Today, anyone running a SAS data warehouse likely has the obligation of providing some sort of reporting. Perhaps they are producing a monthly set of finance reports using SAS reporting PROCs that are saved to PDF format and circulated among executives at a company. In addition, they may be supporting an online query tool such as the one we examined with the BRFSS. Therefore, leaders of SAS data warehouses have to make some reporting-related considerations:

Different considerations in print versus web reporting: As described, the legacy of print reporting using arrays, macro variables, and macros in SAS is difficult to migrate away from, so they tend to continue to be supported, although plans can be made in this area. For web reporting, different considerations need to be made, the most prominent one being I/O.
I/O with SAS and web reporting: The primary concern with SAS with any function is always I/O. When we are doing...