Efficiency: Improving the Performance of Your Sas Applications

by SAS Institute

What does saving on CPU space and time mean to you? If your answer is MONEY...read on! Virgile shares his expertise on reducing the CPU time required to run your SAS jobs with discussion about reading data, reporting, handling files, sorting, summarizing and manipulating data. He also provides pointed strategies for reducing storage space. Virgile's skillful delivery of programming techniques and strategies enables the reader to validate their program's efficiency for present and future use through a clever icon system that rates the individual computing savings. The test programs are also available from the SAS Online Samples facility to verify results. This book is written for the experienced SAS programmer. Supports releases 6.09 and higher of SAS software.

252 pages, Paperback

First published August 10, 1998