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• Use FORMATTED and LIST input to read raw data files
• Use INFILE statement options to control processing when reading raw data files
• Use various components of an INPUT statement to process raw data files including
• column and line pointer controls, and trailing @ controls
• Combine SAS data sets
• Access an Excel workbook

• Create temporary and permanent SAS data sets
• Create and manipulate SAS date values
• Export data to create standard and comma-delimited raw data files
• Control which observations and variables in a SAS data set are processed and output.

• Investigate SAS data libraries using base SAS utility procedures
• Sort observations in a SAS data set
• Conditionally execute SAS statements
• Use assignment statements in the DATA step
• Modify variable attributes using options and statements in the DATA step
• Accumulate sub-totals and totals using DATA step statements
• Use SAS functions to manipulate character data, numeric data, and SAS date values
• Use SAS functions to convert character data to numeric and vice versa
• Process data using DO LOOPS
• Process data using SAS arrays
• Validate and clean data.

• Generate list reports using the PRINT procedure
• Generate summary reports and frequency tables using base SAS procedures
• Enhance reports through the use of user-defined formats, titles, footnotes and SAS System reporting
• Generate reports using ODS statements.

• Identify and resolve programming logic errors
• Recognize and correct syntax errors
• Examine and resolve data errors.

• Generate detail reports by working with a single table, joining tables, or using set operators in the SQL procedure
• Generate summary reports by working with a single table, joining tables, or using set operators in the SQL procedure
• Construct sub-queries and in-line views within an SQL procedure step
• Compare solving a problem using the SQL procedure versus using traditional SAS programming techniques
• Access Dictionary Tables using the SQL procedure.

• Create and use user-defined and automatic macro variables within the SAS Macro Language
• Automate programs by defining and calling macros using the SAS Macro Language
• Understand the use of macro functions
• Use various system options that are available for macro debugging and displaying values of user-defined and automatic macro variables in the SAS log
• Create data-driven programs using SAS Macro Language.

• Demonstrate the use of advanced data look-up techniques such as array processing, hash objects, formats, and combining/merging data
• Reduce computing resource requirements by controlling the space required to store SAS data sets using compression techniques, length statements, or eliminating variables and observations
• Reduce programming time by developing reusable SAS programs which incorporate data step views, DATA steps that write SAS programs, and the FCMP procedure
• Perform effective benchmarking by using the appropriate SAS System options and interpreting the resulting resource utilization statistics
• Identify appropriate applications for using indexes and create them using the DATA step, the DATASETS procedure, or the SQL procedure
• Compare techniques to eliminate duplicate data using the DATA step, the SORT procedure, and the SQL procedure.