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Migration for Metadata-Based Deployments (February 2009)
The SAS Migration Utility analyzes and prepares your SAS 9.1.3 deployment for migration. See SAS Intelligence Platform: 9.1.3 to 9.2 Migration Guide for a complete guide to planning and execution.
The SAS 9.2 Value Proposition
- Why Upgrade to SAS 9.2 Software? (PDF)
- Ten Great Reasons Why a Statistician Should Update to SAS 9.2
Coexistence
Read about running multiple versions of SAS on one computer.
- Peaceful Coexistence: SAS®9 and SAS 8.2
- Peaceful Coexistence: SAS 9.2 and SAS 9.1.3
Sample Validation SOP
See an example SOP: SAS Installation Qualification / Operational Qualification (PDF) (updated 19 May 2008) for the pharmaceutical industry.
Calculators
- Compatibility Calculator
- PROC MIGRATE Calculator
SAS Notes
- Data Migration and Compatibility
- Migration for Metadata-Based Deployments

Migration

This topic lists the available compatibility and migration documentation.

For SAS Business Intelligence, Data Integration, and Solutions that are metadata-based, see SAS Intelligence Platform: 9.1.3 to 9.2 Migration Guide.
Several important issues are mentioned in Special Considerations for Customers Upgrading to SAS® 9.2. For example, jobs that were deployed for scheduling or were deployed as stored processes should be redeployed in the SAS 9.2 environment.
For peaceful coexistence and other issues, see the topic for SAS Intelligence Platform and Business Intelligence.
If you use SAS Data Quality Server or DataFlux dfPower Studio, see also SAS Data Quality Server and SAS Data Quality Solution.