SAS Stored Processes: A Practical Guide to Developing Web Applications

© Philip Mason 2020

P. MasonSAS Stored Processeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5925-2_7

7. Stored Processes

Philip Mason¹ 

(1)

Wallingford, UK

 

In this chapter, we will focus on SAS Stored Processes and look at the details around them so we can get a good understanding of how to create them along with all the details around that. Let’s start by looking at how we move from a SAS program that every SAS programmer understands to a Stored Process.

Converting a SAS Program into a Stored Process

It is very easy to take a normal SAS program and make it into a Stored Process. Here is a normal SAS program which extracts some data, summarizes it, and prints it:

* take a random sample ;

data sample ;

   set sashelp.class ;

if ranuni(1)<0.5 ;

run ;

* work out average ...