Now that your SAS® Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) environment is available, you are ready to start moving your SAS data sets and formats from SAS® 9.4 to CAS. However, there are a number of considerations to think about before, during, and after you move your data and formats. This paper, written for the beginner CAS user, focuses on three main considerations in the context of examples that illustrate how to load SAS data sets and formats. These considerations include character encoding, parallel data loading, and finally the CAS table size considerations. All is covered in the video below by SAS' Kevin Russell @saskir.
Video highlights
0:36 - Three main consideration for the paper
1:14 - First consideration: character encoding
6:45 - Second consideration: parallel loading
7:05 - Serial data transfer explained
7:54 - Parallel data transfer explained
10:16 - Parallel vs serial load comparison
11:18 - Third consideration: size of CAS table vs the source data set
12:06 - Data structure alignment
12:51 - VARCHAR variable type
15:55 - Putting it all together with an example
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