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what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction
about sas?
 Question Submitted By :: Madhoo
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  Re: what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction about sas?
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# 1
sas is a language
sas is a Database
Sas is a warehouse
sas is a Reporting  and analysis tool
 
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Venugopalreddy.m
 
  Re: what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction about sas?
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# 2
you can define sas as a statistical analysis software.
sas is a package of etl tool and reporting tool.
 
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Kiran
 
 
 
  Re: what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction about sas?
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# 3
sas is a package or colletion of products or tolls with 
domain based functional software.

It is not a database.
sas is a statistical software
sas is a datawarehousing software
sas is a analysis and reporting software.
 
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Rajaanku11
 
  Re: what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction about sas?
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# 4
sas is programming language which is used for data 
retrive,manage,analyse and to genrate the reports. 
sas provides wide range of solutins to the business
world.
 
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Rakesh
 
  Re: what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction about sas?
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# 5
sas is a 4th generation programming language
sas is a datawarehouse 
sas is a analysis and reporting tool
 
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Mythri
 
  Re: what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction about sas?
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# 6
SAS is a statistical analytical software. mainly used by 
statistitians for analysis.
it is a good data repository (datya warehouse)
it is also used for data manipulation and reporting purpose 
by sas programmers.
 
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Dipti Patil
 
  Re: what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction about sas?
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# 7
sas is statistical analysis system which is integrated 
package can be use which way you want 
sas is for data base
sas is for data retrive and access
sas is for data management
sas is for data warehouse
sas is for data mining
sas is for data entry
sas is for data analysis by statistics knowledge
sas is for data reporting
sas is for web devolapment
sas is for graphics
sas is for easy programming language
sas is for dicision making
sas is for forcasting
sas is for unlimited storege data base
sas is for graphs
 
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K Ramesh Sas Trainer In Stg
 
  Re: what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction about sas?
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# 8
SAS (pronounced "sass", originally Statistical Analysis 
System) is an integrated system of software products 
provided by SAS Institute that enables the programmer to 
perform:

data entry, retrieval, management, and mining 
report writing and graphics 
statistical analysis 
business planning, forecasting, and decision support 
operations research and project management 
quality improvement 
applications development 
Data warehousing (extract, transform, load) 
platform independent and remote computing 
In addition, SAS has many business solutions that enable 
large scale software solutions for areas such as IT 
management, human resource management, financial 
management, business intelligence, customer relationship 
management and more.
 
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Sunil
 
  Re: what is sas? is a package or tool? give me introduction about sas?
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# 9
SAS: Statistical Analysis Software, Statistical Analysis 
System. It is basically 80% GUI 20% Non-GUI, means only 20% 
program is required to do the tasks. Tasks like statistical 
analysis used in various areas like mainly Clinical 
studies,pharma, banking, finance etc.
 
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Pnprasad
 

 
 
 
Other SAS Interview Questions
 
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What is difference between (a-z) and (a--z) Accenture4
If you’re not wanting any SAS output from a data step, how would you code the data statement to prevent SAS from producing a set? Accenture3
what is the difference between %put and symbolgen?  5
1.How to draw pivot tables in Excel by using SAS and in which version we can use VB script for to draw pivot tables in Excel? Answer with example data. 2.What are the advantages of _NULL_ in Data steps? Can we use _NULL_ in Proc steps also? 3. How to call the macro variable into Data Steps? 4. Can we draw pivot tables in Excel using Proc SQL? Please post answers for the above questions with suitable examples, and how to use VB script for Excel using SAS.  1
What are the criticality that you have faced during your project in SAS?  2
How would you code a merge that will write the matches of both to one data set, the non-matches from the left-most data set to a second data set, and the non-matches of the right-most data set to a third data set?  2
what are the advantages of using SAS in clinical data mangement? why should not we use other software products in managing clinical data? Wockhardt1
what is fact table and factless table?  1
If reading a variable length file with fixed input, how would you prevent SAS from reading the next record if the last variable didn?t have a value?  3
Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements? Accenture4
SAS System ?  2
How do you debug and test your SAS programs? What can you learn from the SAS log when debugging? How do you test for missing values? How would you create multiple observations from a single observation? What are some good SAS programming practices for processing very large data sets? Briefly describe 5 ways to do a "table lookup" in SAS. Why is SAS considered self-documenting? Are you sensitive to code walk-throughs, peer review, or QC review? What other SAS features do you use for error trapping and data validation? How does SAS handle missing values in: assignment statements, functions, a merge, an update, sort order, formats, PROCs?  1
How would you code a merge that will keep only the observations that have matches from both sets. Accenture5
Please, anyone, let me know the style or an example of using 'by='/'by' variable of a PDV(Program Data Vector) Verinon-Technology-Solutions3
How would you code a merge that will keep only the observations that have matches from both sets?  4
is there any differnce between proc means and proc summary?  2
what are the new features included in the new version of SAS i.e., SAS9.1.3? Wockhardt4
How will you assign all the variables of an dataset into a macro variable separated by a space? For example if a dataset has variables A,B,C. Assign them to a macro variable X as X=A B C Accenture2
What do you feel about hardcoding?  1
What other SAS features do you use for error trapping and data validation?  2
 
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