Features in Data Preparation

The chapter describes the data preparation activities that can be performed with the data preparation interface. The following list identifies the available actions:
  • select a source table and join tables based on join conditions
  • add calculated columns and drop columns from source and joined tables
  • control the sort order for the output data and apply row filters to subset the data
  • preview the output data
  • add the prepared data to a co-located data provider
With this feature set, the data preparation interface enables administrators to access data from the variety of data sources that SAS and the SAS/ACCESS interfaces can read and then operate on the data. Administrators can control the variables needed for analytics and make the data available to the SAS LASR Analytic Server for in-memory analytic processing.