RTSUG presents A Brief Introduction to DS2
Date: Thursday November 14, 2024
Time: Noon to 1pm ET
Title: A Brief Introduction to DS2
Where: Virtual meeting on Zoom, email researchtrianglesasusersgroup@gmail.com for the Zoom link
Presenter: Charu Shankar
Description:
DS2 is a SAS programming language available in Base SAS 9.4+ and in all versions of SAS Viya.
The language is designed for simple, safe parallel processing using an intriguing combination of SQL and traditional DATA step syntax. DS2 is also capable of accessing and processing database high-precision numeric values such as BIGINT and DECIMAL without any loss of precision.
The paper discusses the benefits of converting a base SAS DATA step to DS2 when the DATA step process is CPU-bound and shows the amazing boost in processing speed that can be achieved by running the process in CAS on SAS Viya.
