Data sources that are
available in SAS Visual Analytics Designer are prepared by a data
administrator or analyst so that you can easily define a report. Data
administrators load tables into memory using SAS Visual Analytics
Administrator. Analysts can use SAS Visual Data Builder to design
queries that load tables into memory too. All data sources contain
data items, which can refer to calculations or columns in physical
data (tables). Reports can include query results from more than one
data source.
Each data source includes
one or more data items that you can use in reports. For example, a
data source named
Order Information might
include standard data items such as
Order ID,
Product
ID,
Unit Cost,
Order
Date, and
Order Amount.
You decide which data items to use. You can select all of the data
items in the data source or a subset of the data items.
SAS Visual Analytics
Designer can use existing user-defined formats, but you cannot specify
to apply a user-defined format to a column.