NOTE: The OPEN Function (error trapping)

In my previous two posts on this topic (listed at the bottom of this post), I’ve described how to use the OPEN function (and its counterparts) to read data sets from macro code, and to read data sets within a DATA step without using the SET/UPDATE/MODI…

How to Jump into SAS Data Integration Studio

This is for for SAS programmers who might be reluctant to check out a GUI tool like SAS Data Integration Studio (DIS for short, which is graphic tool to implement ETL processes: extract, transform, load). DIS translates all users dragged nodes, transformations and process into SAS codes which are traditionally written by SAS programmers. I […]

SAS Global Forum 2012 Opening Session

Quick clip of the SAS Global Forum 2012 amazing video introduction to the high performance analytics.
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Studyday calculation ( –DY Variable in SDTM)

USE OF THE “STUDY DAY” VARIABLES

The permissible Study Day variables (–DY, –STDY, and –ENDY) describe the relative day of the observation starting with the reference date as Day 1. They are determined by comparing the date portion of the resp…