Data in the SAS Intelligence Platform

Default SAS Storage

You can use SAS data sets (tables), the default SAS storage format, to store data of any granularity.

A SAS table is a file that SAS software creates and processes. Each SAS table is a member of a SAS library. A SAS library is a collection of one or more SAS files that are recognized by SAS software and that are referenced and stored as a unit.

Each SAS table contains the following:

data values that are organized as a table of observations (rows) and variables (columns) that can be processed by SAS software
descriptor information such as data types, column lengths, and the SAS engine that was used to create the data

For shared access to SAS data sets, you can use SAS/SHARE software, which provides concurrent update access to SAS files for multiple users.

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