· What are some good SAS programming practices for
processing very large data sets?

Answer Posted / vicky

1.we can compress the dataset

2.if we wana do merge a bigdate set with another dataset
having few variables for instance a fact with dimension
having key variable and description column
in this case sorting n merging this bigdateset(fact) with
dimension apply formats.so dat u can avoid sort n merge.

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