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. Download the data Get the code Mark uses for the tips on GitHub – https://github.com/sascommunities/sas... 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... SUBSCRIBE TO THE SAS USERS YOUTUBE CHANNEL #SASUsers #LearnSAS https://www.youtube.com/SASUsers?sub_... ABOUT SAS SAS is a trusted analytics powerhouse for organizations seeking immediate value from their data. A deep bench of analytics solutions and broad industry knowledge keep our customers coming back and feeling confident. With SAS®, you can discover insights from your data and make sense of it all. Identify what’s working and fix what isn’t. Make more intelligent decisions. And drive relevant change. CONNECT WITH SAS SAS ► https://www.sas.com SAS Customer Support ► https://support.sas.com SAS Communities ► https://communities.sas.com SAS Analytics Explorers ► https://explorers.sas.com Facebook ►   / sassoftware   Twitter ►   / sassoftware   LinkedIn ►   / sas   Blogs ► https://blogs.sas.com RSS ► https://www.sas.com/rss