• Contents
  • About
  • What's New in SAS Data Integration Studio 4.9
  • Introduction
    • Overview of SAS Data Integration
      • About SAS Data Integration
      • Advantages of SAS Data Integration
      • A Basic Data Integration Environment
      • How to Get Help for SAS Data Integration Studio
      • Installing SAS Data Integration Studio
      • Administrative Documentation for SAS Data Integration Studio
      • Accessibility Features in SAS Data Integration Studio
  • General User Tasks
    • Getting Started
      • Security for SAS Data Integration Studio
      • Main Tasks for Creating Process Flows
      • Starting SAS Data Integration Studio
      • Connecting to a SAS Metadata Server
      • Working with the Folders Tree
      • Selecting a Default SAS Application Server
      • Registering SAS Libraries
      • Working with User-Defined Formats
      • Registering Tables and Cubes
      • Overview of Transformations
      • Working with Stored Processes
      • Working with Web Services
      • Specifying Global Options in SAS Data Integration Studio
      • Working with Change Management
      • Search Metadata
      • Add a Note or Document to a Registered Object
      • View the Content of Notes or Documents
    • Importing, Exporting, and Copying Metadata
      • Metadata Import and Export in SAS Data Integration Studio
      • Working with SAS Package Metadata
      • Preparing to Import or Export SAS Package Metadata
      • Exporting SAS Package Metadata
      • Importing SAS Package Metadata
      • Copying and Pasting Metadata Objects
      • Working with SAS Metadata Bridges
      • Usage Notes for Importing or Exporting with a SAS Metadata Bridge
      • Preparing to Import or Export with a SAS Metadata Bridge
      • Importing New Metadata with a SAS Metadata Bridge
      • Importing Updated Metadata with a SAS Metadata Bridge
      • Exporting Metadata with a SAS Metadata Bridge
    • Working with Tables
      • About Tables
      • Registering Existing Tables with the Register Tables Wizard
      • Registering New Tables with the New Table Wizard
      • Viewing or Updating Table Metadata
      • Using a Physical Table to Update Table Metadata
      • Specifying Options for Tables
      • Supporting Case and Special Characters in Table and Column Names
      • Maintaining Column Metadata
      • Standardizing Columns
      • Maintaining Keys
      • Maintaining Indexes
      • Browsing Table Data
      • Editing SAS Table Data
      • Using the View Data Window to Create a SAS Table
      • Specifying Browse and Edit Options for Tables and External Files
    • Working with External Files
      • About External Files
      • Registering a Delimited External File
      • Registering a Fixed-Width External File
      • Registering an External File with User-Written Code
      • Viewing or Updating External File Metadata
      • Overriding the Code Generated by the External File Wizards
      • Specifying NLS Support for External Files
      • Accessing an External File with an FTP Server or an HTTP Server
      • Viewing Data in External Files
      • Registering a COBOL Data File That Uses a COBOL Copybook
      • Using an External File in the Process Flow for a Job
      • Using a Format File to Register a Fixed-Width External File
    • Creating Jobs
      • About Jobs
      • Creating an Empty Job
      • Creating a Process Flow for a Job
      • Creating a Job That Contains Jobs
      • Working with Default Temporary Output Tables
      • Specifying Options for Jobs
      • Documenting Process Flow Diagrams
      • Accessing Local and Remote Data
      • Viewing or Updating Job Metadata
      • Displaying the SAS Code for a Job
      • Common Code Generated for a Job
    • Managing Jobs
      • About Managing Jobs
      • Submitting a Job for Immediate Execution
      • Meeting Prerequisites for Collecting Job Statistics
      • Reviewing a Successful Job
      • Diagnosing and Correcting an Unsuccessful Job
      • Adding a Transformation to an Existing Job
      • Understanding the Job Has Changed Warning
      • Understanding the Crossed Versions in a Job Warning
      • Displaying Run-Time Statistics in SAS Job Monitor
      • Displaying Run-Time Statistics in SAS Web Report Studio or the SAS Stored Process Server
      • Maintaining Column Mappings
      • Managing the Scope of Column Changes in Jobs
      • Managing Connections in Job Editor Windows
      • Viewing the Code for a Transformation
      • Specifying Options for Transformations
      • Redirecting Temporary Output Tables
      • Pushing ELT Job Code Down to a Database
      • Using a Web Client to Orchestrate Jobs
    • Restarting Jobs From Checkpoints
      • About Restarting Jobs
      • Prerequisites for Restarting Jobs
      • Adding Checkpoints to a Job
      • Restarting a Job
    • Managing the Status of Jobs and Transformations
      • About Status Handling for Jobs and Transformations
      • Default Conditions, Actions, and Conditional Action Sets
      • Prerequisites for Actions
      • Perform Actions Based on the Status of a Job
      • Perform Actions Based on the Status of a Transformation
      • Macro Variables for Status Handling
    • Deploying Jobs
      • About Deploying Jobs
      • About Deploying Jobs for Scheduling
      • Prerequisites for Deploying a Job for Scheduling
      • Deploying Jobs for Scheduling
      • Using a Command Line to Deploy Jobs
      • Redeploying Jobs for Scheduling
      • Using Scheduling to Handle Complex Process Flows
      • Using Deploy for Scheduling to Execute Jobs on a Remote Host
      • About Deploying Jobs as Stored Processes
      • Prerequisites for Deploying a Job as a Stored Process
      • Deploying Jobs as Stored Processes
      • Redeploying Jobs to Stored Processes
      • Viewing or Updating Stored Process Metadata
      • About Deploying Jobs as Web Services
      • Prerequisites for Web Service Jobs
      • Requirements for Web Service Jobs
      • Creating a Web Service Job
      • Deploying a Web Service Job as a Stored Process
      • Deploying a Stored Process as a Web Service
    • Working with Versions
      • About Versions
      • Prerequisites for Version Control
      • Example Setup for an Apache Subversion (SVN) Server
      • Creating a Version
      • Reviewing and Managing Versions
      • Comparing Versions
    • Working with Generated Code
      • About Code Generated for Jobs
      • Displaying the Code Generated for a Job
      • Displaying the Code Generated for a Transformation
      • Specifying Options for Jobs
      • Specifying Options for a Transformation
      • Modifying Configuration Files or SAS Start Commands for Application Servers
    • Working with User-Written Code
      • About User-Written Code
      • Adding User-Written Code to the Precode and Postcode Tab
      • Adding a User Written Code Transformation to a Job
      • Creating and Using a Generated Transformation
      • Updating a Generated Transformation
      • Editing the Generated Code for a Job or Transformation
      • Replacing the Generated Code for a Job or Transformation
      • Converting a SAS Code File to a Job
    • Optimizing Process Flows
      • About Process Flow Optimization
      • Managing Process Data
      • Managing Columns
      • Streamlining Process Flow Components
      • Using Simple Debugging Techniques
      • Using SAS Logs
      • Reviewing Temporary Output Tables
      • Additional Performance Optimization Information
    • Working with Impact Analysis and Data Lineage
      • Impact Analysis and Data Lineage
      • Performing an Impact Analysis
      • Performing Impact Analysis on a Generated Transformation
      • Performing Reverse Impact Analysis
      • Using SAS Lineage
    • Working with Reports
      • About Metadata Reports
      • Opening the Reports Window
      • Selecting the Reports Perspective
      • Customizing the Tables Report
      • Customizing the Job Documentation Report
      • Running and Saving a Report
      • Saving a Report As a Document Object
      • Viewing a Report
      • Creating Your Own Report
    • Working with Data Management Platform
      • Integration with DataFlux Data Management Platform
      • General Prerequisites for Data Quality Transformations
      • Prerequisites for Running a DataFlux Job or Profile in a SAS Data Integration Studio Job
      • Analyzing the Quality of Data Sources
      • Standardizing Values with a Standardization Scheme
      • Standardizing Values with a Definition
      • Using Match Codes to Improve Record Matching
      • Using a DataFlux Data Service in a SAS Data Integration Studio Job
      • Using a DataFlux Job or Profile in a SAS Data Integration Studio Job
  • Working with Transformations
    • Working with Analysis Transformations
      • About Analysis Transformations
      • Creating a Correlation Analysis
      • Creating a Distribution Analysis
      • Generating Forecasts
      • Frequency of Eye Color By Hair Color Crosstabulation
      • One-Way Frequency of Eye Color By Region
      • Creating Summary Statistics for a Table
      • Creating a Summary Tables Report from Table Data
    • Working with Loader Transformations
      • About Loader Transformations
      • About the SPD Server Table Loader Transformation
      • Teradata Table Loader Transformation
      • About the Table Loader Transformation
      • About the Oracle Bulk Table Loader Transformation
      • About the DB2 Bulk Table Loader
      • Setting Table Loader Transformation Options
      • Selecting a Load Technique in the Table Loader
      • Removing Non-Essential Indexes and Constraints during a Load
      • Considering a Bulk Load
    • Working with SAS Sort Transformations
      • About Sort Transformations
      • Optimizing Sort Performance
      • Creating a Table That Contains the Sorted Contents of a Source
    • Working with SQL Join Transformations
      • About Join Transformations
      • Using the Designer Window
      • Reviewing and Modifying Clauses, Joins, and Tables in an SQL Query
      • Understanding Automatic Joins
      • Selecting the Join Type
      • Adding User-Written SQL Code
      • Debugging an SQL Query
      • Adding a Column to the Target Table
      • Adding a Join to an SQL Query on the Designer Tab
      • Creating a Simple SQL Query
      • Configuring a SELECT Clause
      • Adding a CASE Expression
      • Creating or Configuring a WHERE Clause
      • Adding a GROUP BY Clause and a HAVING Clause
      • Adding an ORDER BY Clause
      • Adding Subqueries
      • Validating or Submitting an SQL Query
      • Joining a Table to Itself
      • Using Parameters with an SQL Join
      • Constructing a SAS Scalable Performance Data Server Star Join
      • Optimizing SQL Processing Performance
      • Performing General Data Optimization
      • Influencing the Join Algorithm
      • Setting the Implicit Property for a Join
      • Enabling Explicit Pass-Through Processing for SQL Join Transformations
      • Using Properties Window Options to Optimize SQL Processing Performance
    • Working with Other SQL Transformations
      • About Other SQL Transformations
      • Inserting Rows into a Target Table
      • Using the SQL Set Operators Transformation
      • Enabling Explicit Pass-Through Processing for Other SQL Transformations
    • Working with Iterative Jobs and Parallel Processing
      • About Iterative Jobs
      • Creating and Running an Iterative Job
      • Creating a Parameterized Job
      • Creating a Control Table
      • About Parallel Processing
      • Setting Options for Parallel Processing
    • Working with Slowly Changing Dimensions
      • About Slowly Changing Dimensions
      • About Dimension Tables
      • About Fact Tables
      • Usage Notes for Slowly Changing Dimensions
      • Loading a Dimension Table with Type 1 Updates
      • Loading a Dimension Table with Type 1 and 2 Updates
      • Comparing Tables
      • Loading a Fact Table Using Dimension Table Lookup
      • Loading a Table and Adding a Surrogate Primary Key
      • Tracking Changes in Source Datetime Values
      • Closing Out Rows in Datetime Change Tracking
    • Working with Change Data Capture
      • About the Change Data Capture Transformations
      • About CDC Changed Data Tables
      • About CDC Control Tables
      • Capture Changed Data from Oracle
    • Working with Message Queues
      • About Message Queues
      • Prerequisites for Message Queues
      • Selecting Message Queue Transformations
      • Processing a WebSphere Queue
      • Polling a Websphere Message Queue
      • Processing a Microsoft Queue
    • Working with SPD Server Cluster Tables
      • About SPD Server Cluster Tables
      • Creating an SPD Server Cluster Table
      • Maintaining an SPD Server Cluster
    • Working with Hadoop and SAS LASR Analytic Server
      • Overview of the Hadoop Transformations
      • Prerequisites for the Hadoop Transformations
      • Creating a Pig Job
      • Creating a Hive Job
      • Creating a Hadoop Container Job
      • Monitoring Hadoop Clusters
      • Overview of the High-Performance Analytics Transformations
      • Prerequisites for the High-Performance Analytics Transformations
      • Loading a Table on the SAS LASR Analytic Server
      • Usage Notes for HPA Software and Hadoop
  • Appendixes
    • Main Windows and Wizards
      • Analysis Window
      • Checkouts Tree
      • Code Editor
      • Comparison Results Window
      • Connection Profile Window
      • Desktop
      • Details Pane
      • Expression Builder
      • Folders Tree
      • Inventory Tree
      • Job Editor
      • Properties Windows
      • Reports Window
      • Tools-Options Window
      • Tree View
      • View Data Windows
      • Wizards
    • Usage Notes
      • General Usage Notes
      • Usage Notes for Register Tables Wizards and the New Table Wizard
      • Usage Notes for the View Data Window
      • Usage Notes for Iterative Jobs
      • Prerequisites for Running a Job When a DataFlux Server Is Used for Authentication
      • Usage Notes for Loaders
    • Miscellaneous Transformations
      • Using a Business Rule Flow in a Job
      • Creating a Table That Appends Two or More Source Tables
      • Creating a Publish to Archive Report from Table Data
      • Validating Product Data
      • Creating a Publish to Email Report from Table Data
      • Integrating a SAS Enterprise Miner Model with Existing SAS Data
      • Creating a Publish to Queue Report from Table Data
      • Extracting Data from a Source Table
      • Creating Reports from Table Data
      • Create a Table That Ranks the Contents of a Source
      • Create Two Tables That Are Subsets of a Source
      • Moving Data Directly from One Machine to Another Machine
      • Creating Standardized Statistics from Table Data
      • Creating Transposed Data from Table Data
      • Converting a SAS or DBMS Table to an XML Table
      • Using ODS to Specify Output from the XML Writer
      • Using SOAP to Access a Third-Party Web Service
      • Using REST to Access a Third-Party Web Service
      • Generating Enterprise Decision Management Output
      • Running Conditional Processes
    • Java Code and Methods for Report Plug-ins
      • Example Java Code for a Report Plug-in
      • Reporting Interface Methods
  • Glossary


ProductRelease
SAS Data Integration Studio4.7_M2
4.7_M1
4.7
4.6
4.4_M1
4.4
4.3_M1
4.3
4.21_M2
4.21_M1
4.21
4.2
3.4
3.3
Type
Usage and Reference
Copyright Date
August 2014
Last Updated
05Aug2014