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Dynamic SAS Programming Techniques, or How NOT to Create Job Security

Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: SAS programmers, particularly consultants, joke about creating job security by creating SAS programs and applications that require long, ongoing maintenance. In all seriousness, though, most people would prefer not to have the ""Security"" of mundane, ongoing maintenance tasks, preferring instead to move on to new development opportunities. While certain ongoing maintenance cannot be avoided, there are techniques that can be utilized to help limit it. This paper describes a number of these techniques, including the use of SAS metadata and dictionary tables, simple and more advanced user input before and during program execution, plus dynamic library and filename referencing


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