Bruce Gilsen, Federal Reserve, presents -
Title:: SAS ® PROGRAM EFFICIENCY FOR BEGINNERS
On Sept, 28, Bruce Gilsen shared simple efficiency techniques that can benefit SAS ® users at all levels of experience. Applications or data sets for which efficiency techniques are presented include the following:
- Read long records from a flat file and keep selected records.
- Subset a SAS data set to create a new data set or use in a SAS Procedure.
- Test multiple conditions with IN, OR, or AND operators.
- Read a SAS data set when you need only a few of many variables.
- Concatenate two SAS data sets.
- Execute a DATA step when no output SAS data set is needed.
- Speed up processing by not dividing by zero.
Bruce Gilsen's BIO:
In 35+ years as a SAS ® consultant at the Federal Reserve Board, he has answered thousands of SAS-related questions. Some of the most common problems encountered were discussed in seven previous "Tales from the Help Desk" papers. He is rated as one of the top-5 speakers of DCSUG, over the last 10 years.