topic Re: sanity check in SAS Data Management

"sanity check" - what does it mean to you?

shivamarrora0 — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:26:38 GMT

Hi All,

i am learning SAS, i go through many resume and everyone of them mention the sanity check .

may i know what are variable include and sanity check , what key should i considere while sanity and more important if i appear in any imterview what are the sanity check you all do in real time scenerios.

Thank you all.

Re: sanity check

Reeza — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:51:07 GMT

Are you learning SAS Base?

In my ten+ years of working with SAS I've never heard a specific term 'sanity check'. My interpretation of that, is: "Stop, check your results. Do they make logical sense?"

And I have never seen "sanity check" on a resume.

Re: sanity check

LinusH — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:02:13 GMT

Sanity check is a high level word that project managers and business stakeholders might use. Anything in a system can be checked: data, programs, structure, documentation, processes and so on. It's not a specific thing.

Re: sanity check

ballardw — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:32:47 GMT

Could this possibly be a translation issue? Jargon or "buzzword" terms may not translate well word by word.

Re: "sanity check" - what does it mean to you?

PGStats — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:31:31 GMT

Look up the expression in Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanity_check

I guess it means checking for obvious errors, such as negative ages or heartbeat rates over 1000, etc.