topic SAS Base Certification in SAS Programming

SAS Base Certification

Bhagya_raj — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 12:58:26 GMT

Hi all,

Hope you had a lovely festive season.

I am studying for the Base programming certification exam and was wondering if

we need to know all the differences between the SAS / Access engines?

Are all the differences and nuances between them examinable?

Thank you very much, appreciate the help!

Bhagya

Reeza — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 15:07:32 GMT

It’s not listed in the topics covered at all.

Basically, they are older to newer developments, as Excel changed, SAS had to modify how to read and write Excel files.

Excel is is used for older Excel files, xls.

PCFILES is for when your version of SAS and Excel differ, ie 64 bit SAS and 32 bit Excel

XLSX is the newest option to create and read XLSX files. It’s designed to work on Unix SAS well.

Bhagya_raj — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:49:22 GMT

Thank you for replying Reeza, that's really helpful!

Appreciate the help 🙂