The reader learned that data must be stored in a different format in order for analytics to efficiently run, and that this format differs from how data is typically stored in a database. In addition, the reader learned how to make data using SAS statements, as well as how to bring external data into the SAS environment.
The reader should now understand that a SAS library is a pointer to where data is stored, whether the data is stored as a SAS dataset or in some other data storage format such as a database. The reader wrote and executed their first SAS programs, making use of both data step statements and a few BASE SAS procedures. At this point, the reader should be comfortable with working with the CODE, LOG, RESULTS, and other sections that make up a program section within SAS Studio.
In addition, you were introduced to several specialty SAS procedures or PROCs, which enable a programmer to more easily work with specific external data sources or other computer languages.
In Chapter...