About This Book

What Does This Book Cover?

This book is about the How, the What, and the Why of using the SAS DATA step hash object. These three topics are interconnected and quite often SAS users focus on just a small part of what SAS software can do. This is especially true for the SAS hash object and hash tables. Far too many users immediately think of the use of hash tables as just a very powerful table lookup facility (a What), and that notion then influences their understanding of the How and the Why.

The authors have found that the SAS hash object and hash tables provide for a very robust data management and analysis facility, and we collaborated on this book to provide the insights we have discovered:

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