Debugging SAS Programs: A Handbook of Tools and Techniques

What does saving CPU space and time mean to you? If your answer is MONEY...read on! Virgile shares his expertise on reducing the CPU time required to run your SAS jobs with discussion about reading data, reporting, handling files, sorting, and summarizing and manipulating data. He also provides pointed strategies for reducing storage space. Virgile's skillful delivery of programming techniques and strategies enables you to validate your program's efficiency for present and future use through a clever icon system that rates the individual computing savings. The test programs are also available from the SAS Online Samples facility to verify results. This book is written for the experienced SAS programmer.