what is the frontend and backend of sas?
Is sas is a progaming langauge or tool?
on which langauge sas depends?

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what is the frontend and backend of sas? Is sas is a progaming langauge or tool? on which langauge..

Answer / b123

SAS is an integrated 4 GL software solutions package. It is
both frontend and backend indepent laguage.

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what is the frontend and backend of sas? Is sas is a progaming langauge or tool? on which langauge..

Answer / aruna

SAS is an ETL, Reporting and Analysis tool, you can do all
these three functionalities with SAS.

front is also provided by SAS,

For backend, SAS has it's own database (in the form of
DATASETS) and also you can connect to any database as
backend like oracle, DB2, Teradata Etc..

Hope this helps.

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what is the frontend and backend of sas? Is sas is a progaming langauge or tool? on which langauge..

Answer / ramesh varma

SAS is not only frontend and backend also.
sas is a progaming langauge and tool.
SAS depands on C langauge.

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