Changes to the Workflow and User Interface

SAS/ASSIST Now Metadata Driven

In order to improve performance, SAS/ASSIST Software is now metadata driven. This means that, instead of examining each data source and extracting information each time you invoke SAS/ASSIST software, the software examines permanently saved, locally stored files that contain this information. This information, which includes table names, number of observations, column names and attributes, and more, is called metadata.

The advantages of the new method are

An organized view of your data is always instantly available.
All available tables or columns can be shown in a selection list.
You can search for a table using a column name that is contained in the table.
Performance when creating tasks based on remote data is improved.
Performance when creating tasks based on data sources with many tables is improved.
Irrelevant data sources can be excluded when creating metadata.

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