Glossary
- Apache Hadoop (Hadoop)
- an open-source framework that enables the distributed
processing of large data sets, across clusters of computers, using
a simple programming model.
- calculated column
- a column that does not exist in any of the tables
that are accessed, but which is created as a result of a column expression.
- capability
- an application feature that is under role-based
management. Typically, a capability corresponds to a menu item or
button. For example, a Report Creation capability might correspond
to a New Report menu item in a reporting application. Capabilities
are assigned to roles.
- co-located data provider
- a distributed data source, such as SAS Visual
Analytics Hadoop or a third-party vendor database, that has SAS High-Performance
Analytics software installed on the same machines. The SAS software
on each machine processes the data that is local to the machine or
that the data source makes available as the result of a query.
- data item
- an item in a data source that is either a logical
view of a data field or a calculation. The author of a report decides
which data items to use in a particular section of a report. There
are three types of data items: hierarchies, categories, and measures.
- data source (source)
- a table, view, or file from which you will extract
information. Sources can be in any format that SAS can access, on
any supported hardware platform. The metadata for a source is typically
an input to a job.
- dependency
- a trigger condition that must be met before a
job can run in a scheduled flow.
- deployed job
- a job that has been saved in a deployment directory
and can be scheduled.
- deployment directory
- the location for generated SAS DATA step programs
that will be executed by the batch server as part of a scheduled flow.
- file event
- a file-related occurrence that is used as a trigger
in a scheduled flow. For example, a file event occurs when a scheduling
server determines that a specified file exists.
- filter
- a set of specified criteria that are applied to
data in order to identify the subset of data for a subsequent operation,
such as continued processing.
- flow
- a set of jobs and associated dependencies that
is scheduled in the Schedule Manager plug-in in SAS Management Console.
- Hadoop
- See Apache Hadoop.
- job
- a collection of SAS tasks that can create output.
- job event
- a job-related occurrence that is used as a trigger
in a scheduled flow. For example, a job event occurs when the scheduling
server issues a command to determine whether a job ran successfully.
- job flow
- a group of jobs and their dependencies, including
dependencies on other jobs, on files, or on specified dates and times. See also job.
- join condition
- a combination of join keys and a comparison operator.
- L10N
- See localization.
- local data
- data that is accessible through the file systems
on a computer. This includes data on hard drives or available through
network file systems.
- locale
- a setting that reflects the language, local conventions,
and culture for a geographic region. Local conventions can include
specific formatting rules for paper sizes, dates, times, and numbers,
and a currency symbol for the country or region. Some examples of
locale values are French_Canada, Portuguese_Brazil, and Chinese_Singapore.
- localization (L10N)
- the process of adapting software for a particular
geocultural region (locale). Translation of the user interface, system
messages, and documentation is a large part of the localization process.
- query
- a set of instructions that requests particular
information from one or more data sources.
- remote data
- data that is not accessible through the file systems
available to a computer. To use remote data, you must direct a SAS
server to access the data that is available through file systems on
the remote machine.
- report
- output that is generated by running custom SAS
code against the data in your project.
- role (user role)
- a set of capabilities within an application that
are targeted to a particular group of users.
- SAS Management Console
- a Java application that provides a single user
interface for performing SAS administrative tasks.
- SAS Stored Process (stored process)
- a SAS program that is stored on a server and defined
in metadata, and which can be executed by client applications.
- SAS Workspace Server
- a SAS server that provides access to SAS Foundation
features such as the SAS programming language and SAS libraries.
- scheduling server
- a server that runs deployed jobs in a scheduled
flow. The scheduling server determines whether the schedule criteria
and dependencies have been met before a job is run.
- source
- See data source.
- stored process
- See SAS Stored Process.
- subquery
- a query-expression that is nested as part of another
query- expression. Depending on the clause that contains it, a subquery
can return a single value or multiple values.
- time series
- an ordered sequence of values of a variable that
are observed at equally spaced time intervals.
- Unicode
- a 16-bit encoding that is the industry standard
for supporting the interchange, processing, and display of characters
and symbols from most of the world's writing systems.
- Unicode Transformation Format 8
- See UTF-8.
- user role
- See role.
- UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format 8)
- a method for converting 16-bit Unicode characters
to 8-bit characters. This format supports all of the world's
languages, including those that use non-Latin 1 characters.
- visual exploration
- a metadata object that contains visualizations
and data settings that are saved from a session of the SAS Visual
Analytics explorer.
- visualization
- an interactive visual representation of data.
A visualization can be a table, a chart, or a geographic map.
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Last updated: January 8, 2019