First Tasks in SAS Data Loader

Here are some of the first tasks you can do in SAS Data Loader:
  • Open SAS Data Loader. For more information, see Play the vApp and Start SAS Data Loader.
  • Verify that you can connect to the Hadoop cluster. One way to do that is to browse tables on the Hadoop cluster. For more information, see Browse Tables.
  • If you do not see the tables that you want to work with on the cluster, ask your Hadoop administrator if they should be there. You might want to copy tables into Hadoop. For more information, see Copy Data To and From Hadoop.
  • If you want to work with SAS LASR Analytic Server, see Load Data to LASR.
  • If you want to review the global options for SAS Data Loader, see Set Global Options.
  • To review what you can do with this software, see What Does It Help You Do?.