SAS Interview Questions
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Name and describe few sas character functions that are used for data cleaning in brief.

660

How is character variable converted into numeric variable and vice versa?

588

What do you know about symput and symget?

723

Which function is used to count the number of intervals between two sas dates?

566

What commands are used in the case of including or excluding any specific variables in the data set?

584

What are the 3 components in sas programming?

719

Explain the purpose of retain statement.

593

Why double trailing @@ is used in input statement?

695

Explain the special input delimiters used in sas programming.

578

What are the ways in which macro variables can be created in sas programming?

563

Which command is used to perform sorting in sas program?

593

What are the data types that sas contain?

649

Explain the difference between nodup and nodupkey options?

605

Differentiate between sas functions and sas procedures.

637

Explain the difference between informat and format with an example.

678


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how many types of prompts are there? : Sas-bi

547


How do you debug and test your SAS programs?

1043


hi here is a problem can anybody solve this? i want to report the data through third party file. by using data _null_ or proc report or macro automation process. but i want to insert the 'titles and footnotes' in between the data and also starting of 2nd and ending of 2nd and starting of 3rd and ending of the 3rd page. tell me how and write the code?

1684


Explain what is SAS informats?

618


What are the best sas programming practices for handling very large datasets? : sas-grid-administration

562






What are the statements that are executed only?

670


Do you know the features of sas?

592


Explain the difference between using drop = data set option in set and data statement?

677


what is sas application server, database server, sas olap server and sas metadata server? : Sas-di

550


What is the basic structure of a sas program?

594


name several ways to achieve efficiency in your program? : Sas programming

566


what are the new features included in the new version of sas i.e., Sas 9.1.3? : Sas programming

541


How would you code a macro statement to produce information on the sas log? This statement can be coded anywhere? : sas-macro

577


i have a dataset with 100 obs i want to generate title from 20th obs onwards with total observations. that should contain 100 obs.dont use firstobs and dnt split the data. use dataset block or proc report? how can we genarate;

1959


Explain what Proc glm does?

629