WHAT DIFFERRENCE DID YOU FIND AMONG VERSION 6 8 AND 9 OF SAS.

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WHAT DIFFERRENCE DID YOU FIND AMONG VERSION 6 8 AND 9 OF SAS...

Answer / h r

proc sql:-
use into:<var_name> to count observation recall by &<var_name>.

table limit in sql now 256(previously its was 32).

proc report now BEST12. format default for numeric value.
before there isn't any default format for numeric value in proc report.

NEW Options noward in proc freq.

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WHAT DIFFERRENCE DID YOU FIND AMONG VERSION 6 8 AND 9 OF SAS...

Answer / rk

There are lots of changes has been made in the version 9
when we compared with the version 8.
The following are the few:
SAS version 9 supports Formats longer than 8 bytes & is not
possible with version 8.
Length for Numeric format allowed in version 9 is 32 where
as 8 in version 8.
Length for Character names in version 9 is 31 where as in
version 8 is 32.
Length for numeric informat in version 9 is 31, 8 in version
8. Length for character names is 30, 32 in version 8.

3 new informats are available in version 9 to convert
various date, time and datetime forms of data into a SAS
date or SAS time.

· ANYDTDTEW. - Converts to a SAS date value
· ANYDTTMEW. - Converts to a SAS time value.
· ANYDTDTMW. -Converts to a SAS datetime value.

CALL SYMPUTX Macro statement is added in the version 9 which
creates a macro variable at execution time in the data step by
· Trimming trailing blanks
· Automatically converting numeric value to character.

New ODS option (COLUMN OPTION) is included to create a
multiple columns in the output.

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WHAT DIFFERRENCE DID YOU FIND AMONG VERSION 6 8 AND 9 OF SAS...

Answer / gangadhar

and DUPSOUT option in proc sort in ver 9. to output only
dupsvalues... any thing else

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WHAT DIFFERRENCE DID YOU FIND AMONG VERSION 6 8 AND 9 OF SAS...

Answer / learner

dupout option from 9.1onwards not from 9.1

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