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- Updates for SAS 9.2 (March 2008)
See the compatibility calculator to determine whether you need to migrate your libraries to SAS 9.2. Use the PROC MIGRATE calculator to find the right example code for your migration.
- Get a Smarter COMPARE
Validation tools for the MIGRATE procedure now work with CEDA and provide additional details about catalogs, indexes, and integrity constraints.
- Start Planning
See Getting Started for the most efficient pathway through all of the SASŪ9 migration documentation.
- Coexistence
Many SAS®9 products can install side-by-side with SAS 8.2 with very good compatibility. See Peaceful Coexistence: SAS®9 and SAS 8.2 for details.
- Sample Validation SOP
See an example SOP: SAS Installation Qualification / Operational Qualification (PDF) for the pharmaceutical industry.
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Migration
Execution: Create Backups and Benchmarks
Step 2: Design a Validation Plan and Create Benchmarks
Benchmarking your source installation is an initial step for many validation and performance tests.
Creating Benchmarks for Validation
The Planning stage's Validation topics provide information about three new SAS validation tools that do not require benchmarks. If they do not meet your needs, the Designing Custom Validation Tests topic guides you through design of benchmarks and validation. Now is the time to set those benchmarks, before you begin installation.
Creating Benchmarks for Performance Optimization
If performance is important to you, then you can establish source benchmarks and compare them to the target's performance. See the tuning topic for ideas.
Proceed to the next phase, Install SAS.