In addition to numerous tuning techniques, this book also touches on implicit and explicit pass-throughs, presents alternative SAS grid- and cloud-based processing environments, and compares SAS programming languages and approaches including FedSQL, CAS, DS2, and hash programming. Other topics include:
- Missing values and data quality with audit trails
- "Blind spots" like how missing values can affect even the simplest calculations and table joins
- SAS macro language and SAS macro programs
- SAS functions
- Integrity constraints
- SAS Dictionaries
- SAS Compute Server