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SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition
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SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

by SAS Institute
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
858 pages
40h 10m
English
SAS Institute
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Using the SASFILE Statement

Overview

Another way of improving performance is to use the SASFILE statement to hold a SAS data file in memory so that the data is available to multiple program steps. Keeping the data file open reduces I/O processing and open/close operations, including the allocation and freeing of memory for buffers.
General form, SASFILE statement:
SASFILE SAS-data-file <(password-option(s))> OPEN | LOAD | CLOSE;
Here is an explanation of the syntax:
SAS-data-file
is a valid SAS data file (a SAS data set with the member type DATA).
password-option(s)
specifies one or more password options.
OPEN
opens the file and allocates the buffers, but defers reading the data into memory until a procedure or statement is ...
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