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

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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Chapter 5

PROC TABULATE is for developing well-formatted tabular reports.
The ODS allows the programmer to tell SAS which internal tables generated during the PROC should be saved outside the PROC, and where to save them.
No special code is needed. For the PROCs that use GTL – PROC SGPLOT, PROC SGPANEL, PROC SGSCATTER, and PROC TEMPLATE used with PROC SGRENDER – the ODS is automatically deployed when running the PROC.
Since the department leader wants to write paragraphs next to the tables, the best format in which to produce the SAS report would be *.rtf, which opens in Microsoft Word. PROC TABULATE could be used to format the tables as per the department leader's specifications.
To output a list of variable names using the ODS, first, the programmer would need to recall what PROC would produce in its output. PROC CONTENTS is the commonly used PROC for outputting a list of variables in a dataset. Once the programmer identifies the appropriate...