SPD Server supports SAS users and users who do not use SAS. Therefore, the documentation strives
to use common terminology that both audiences can understand. This documentation uses
the following conventions:
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SAS data sets are referred to as
tables.
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When there is a need to distinguish between tables created with the
Base SAS engine and tables created with SPD Server, the text refer to “tables” and “SPD Server
tables.”
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SAS variables are referred to as
columns.
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SAS observations are referred
to as rows.
The
SAS Scalable Performance Data Server product is referred to as “SPD Server” throughout this documentation. The word “server”
and “SPD Server” are both used
to refer to the server process, depending on the context of the documentation.