SAS04
Save Time Today Using SAS® Views
Robert Ray, SAS Institute

In this time of exploding data volumes, your old friend the SAS® data view can be more important than ever as a tool to reduce total job I/O and, thereby, total time. Views can be created in SAS with either SQL or the DATA Step and used singly or in combin ation. SAS data views can be used as one might use Unix 'pipes' to chain multiple data manipulation stages together without intervening I/O. Judicious use of this established technology can cut execution real-time significantly and bring your critical job s back into their time windows. Additionally, this paper will briefly discuss the new "pipes" feature of the multi-process (MP) SAS/CONNECT® product. .