Golgappa.net | Golgappa.org | BagIndia.net | BodyIndia.Com | CabIndia.net | CarsBikes.net | CarsBikes.org | CashIndia.net | ConsumerIndia.net | CookingIndia.net | DataIndia.net | DealIndia.net | EmailIndia.net | FirstTablet.com | FirstTourist.com | ForsaleIndia.net | IndiaBody.Com | IndiaCab.net | IndiaCash.net | IndiaModel.net | KidForum.net | OfficeIndia.net | PaysIndia.com | RestaurantIndia.net | RestaurantsIndia.net | SaleForum.net | SellForum.net | SoldIndia.com | StarIndia.net | TomatoCab.com | TomatoCabs.com | TownIndia.com
Interested to Buy Any Domain ? << Click Here >> for more details...

  1. Categories >> Software >> Data Warehouse >> SAS
  2. Suggest New Category

Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct
instead of IF statements?

Question Posted / sasguru

Answers were Sorted based on User's Feedback



Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / alan

--when you have a long series of mutually exclusive
conditions and comparison is numeric
--CPU time is reduced when using SELECT statements

Is This Answer Correct ?    12 Yes 0 No

Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / sumalatha.ch

select statement is reduced cpu time.and make the programme
easier to read and debug

Is This Answer Correct ?    2 Yes 0 No

Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / 3nadh

Select Statement executes one of several statements or
group of statements.

If Statement :- Continues processing only those obs that
meet the condition.

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 3 No

Under what circumstances would you code a SELECT construct instead of IF statements?..

Answer / jothi sankar

--> When renaming of varibales during getting data itself,

--> new varible creation by combining already existing
varibales(eg: Name = FName + LName) to reduce memory usage

--> When nested conditions are less and getting more %
records from base

Is This Answer Correct ?    0 Yes 4 No

Post New Answer

More SAS Interview Questions

how to intersect the tables by using PROC MIXED?

1 Answers   CitiGroup,

What are the efficacy variables in your study?

2 Answers   Accenture, Quintiles,

Suppose there is a SAS dataset with following values - Parent Child A B B C D E F G G H H I and so on….. This goes onto 1000s of observations/rows. Now how do we identify from this dataset Grandparents and Grandchildrens ?

5 Answers   American Express, Barclays,

what is study design in while working with SAS? what are screening variables in SAS?

0 Answers   MSCR,

Can you use a macro within another macro? If so how would SAS know where the current acro ended and the new one began?

2 Answers  

What is the difference between reading data from an external file and reading data from an existing data set?

0 Answers  

Which of the following is not created during compilation phase?

2 Answers   SAS,

How many versions came upto now in SAS?

3 Answers   CTS, TCS,

what has been your most common programming mistake? : Sas programming

0 Answers  

Diff between proc sql merge and join?

1 Answers   HSBC, Sristek,

Describe the types of SAS programming tasks that you performed like Tables? Listings? Graphics? Ad hoc reports? Other?

4 Answers   HP, Oracle,

Enlist the functions performed by sas.

0 Answers  

For more SAS Interview Questions Click Here
Categories