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Choosing the Right Procedure

Base Procedures That Are Enhanced for In-Database Processing

In the second maintenance release for SAS 9.2, Base SAS procedures have been enhanced so they can process data inside the Teradata Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). The in-database procedures are used to generate more sophisticated queries that allow the aggregations and analytics to be run inside the database. These in-database procedures all generate SQL queries. You use SAS/ACCESS or SQL as the interface to the Teradata EDW.

The following Base SAS procedures have been enhanced for in-database processing.

In-Database Base Procedures
Procedure Description
PROC FREQ in Base SAS Procedures Guide: Statistical Procedures produces one-way to n-way tables; reports frequency counts; computes test and measures of association and agreement for two-way to n-way cross-tabulation tables; can compute exact tests and asymptotic tests; can create output data sets.
PROC MEANS
computes descriptive statistics; can produce printed output and output data sets. By default, PROC MEANS produces printed output.
PROC RANK
computes ranks for one or more numeric variables across the observations of a SAS data set; can produce some rank scores.
PROC SUMMARY
computes descriptive statistics; can produce a printed report and create an output data set. By default, PROC SUMMARY creates an output data set.

For more information, see "In-Database Procedures in Teradata" in SAS/ACCESS for Relational Databases: Reference.

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