SAS Overview
SAS is highly flexible and integrated software environment which can be used on all major Operating Systems like Windows,Unix and Mainframe. It is used to Access,Manage,Analyse and make Reports on the data. SAS can access data from almost all major Data Source like Oracle, Excel, Teradata , Lotus, Notepad etc.
SAS has two Face: Programming and GUI( Graphical User Interface). We are doing programming when we are working on Base SAS and Advance SAS. SAS EG, SAS DI, SAS PM etc are GUI Face of SAS.
Base SAS
According to SAS Institute Base SAS is the fundamental component of SAS. In this we will learn about Data Step, Proc Steps and some Global Statements. SAS Programs are sequence of Steps and Steps are sequence of Statements. Date Step is used to solve complex business logic and to create SAS data sets.
Proc Steps are nothing but different SAS procedures which are designed to do specific tasks. A user cannot
create his/her own procedures, Its predefined. Some of the SAS Procedures are Freq,Means,Univariate,
Print,Contents,Sort,Transpose,Copy,Format etc. Apart from Data Step and Proc Steps you we have to learn different SAS Functions, Options, Global Statements, Merging Concepts,Arrays etc.
