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READING RAW DATA: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Single @ vs double @@ Missover Vs truncover Dlm and dsd How to handle huge data Necessity of informats : and & modifiers. Purpose of infile and input statements FUNCTIONS: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Give me some names of function you know (eg. Intck, intnx, weekday, substr, scan) Length Vs lengthc Cat vs catx If vs where Retain stat and arrays X=month(today()); Format x date9. X= abc; x = abcd; Y = 24; y = 2456; X = 123456789; y=substr(x,3,4); Input() vs put() Intck() Vs intnx() Index() vs scan() List of system options. Significance of 1920 and significance of 1st jan 1960; What is the diff b/w arithmetic summation and sum function. Put() and input() Mod(), round() and int() Length(), lengthc(), substr(), scan(), index(), compress(), compbl(). Day(), month(), year(), MDY(), datejul(), intck() and intnx(). If-then-else. Do-while Vs Do-until Label statement.

PROCEDURES: 1. 2. 3. 4. Proc Sort nodup/nodupkey/dupout/out= Proc Report Define/Group/Order Proc Tabulate Proc transpose

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ODS: 1. ODS TRACE ON/OFF 2. ODS SELECT / EXCLUDE 3. How to create html/rtf/pdf outputs. COMBINING DATASETS: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Set ds1 dsn2; Vs Set dsn1; Set dsn2; Update; ? Interleaving Vs stacking Merge with BY Vs Merge without BY stat Merge with IN = option First.var and Last.var ----- Purpose? Merge Vs Joins

SAS/SQL: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Syntax for a) CREATE table b) INSERT c) INNER joins How to Sort datasets How to remove duplicates How to count no. of obs. How to get employee details with highest salary. How to create a view What is Cartesian product? GROUP BY / ORDER BY / HAVING TABLES VS VIEW

SAS/ACCESS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Libname SQL Passthrough DBload process Libname Vs SQL Pass through DBlaod Vs (Libname & SQL Passthrough) Syntax for libname Syntax for sql pass through Syntax for dbload.

MACROS 1. 2. 3. 4. Ways to create macro variables Data variable vs macro variables Data types in macros. Length range for numeric, character, macro variable.

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Purpose of %eval and %syseval Local macro variable Vs Global macro variable. User macro var Vs System macro var. Creating variables using INTO class (by default global) %local and % global Indirect reference in macros Nested macros %sysfunc Quoting functions - %str, %nrstr Call symput (executed by sas processor) Symget Function