Total Time: 5 hour(s)

Summary: 
This course presents various methods for combining and updating existing SAS data sets.

Ojectives: 
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Create new data sets through concatenating, interleaving or merging observations
Update a master data set with values from a transaction data set
Manipulate a SAS data set in place
Read a data set twice
Determine the source of an observation
Combine portions of data sets
Read only certain observations
Access observations nonsequentially

Topics: 
Concatenating Data Sets
Interleaving and Merging Data Sets
Updating with UPDATE
Updating with MODIFY
Using Other Techniques

Technical Requirements: 
P500+ Processor, 128MB of RAM; Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Minimum screen resolution 800x600, Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher; Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher; Flash 8.0 or higher; 56K minimum connection; broadband (256 kpbs or higher) connection recommended; Javascript, DHTML and cookies enabled; Sound card with speakers or headphones strongly recommended.