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New Ways and Means to Summarize Files

Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Frequently, when creating files for a data warehouse or to be used within a SAS program, it makes sense to create smaller files to save space and reduce processing time. Sometimes creating summary files is the solution. While this procedure has been available for several versions of SAS, version 8 of SAS gives some significant new features that can be used to get more information in summarized files and to optimize the summary process. This paper from SAS Institute discusses the techniques and programming code for creating summary files, where the SAS programmer collapses a data file into fewer observations and variables.


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