Time: Friday, September 14, 2007 -- 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
***Note: Date is a Friday !!!... changed just for this meeting from the usual Thursday***
Place: Department of Technology Services (DTS) Training Center
(formally known-as Health and Human Services Data Center Training Center)
9323 Tech Center Drive, Suite 100,Sacramento, CA 95826
916-739-7502
At the Tiber Light Rail Station or off Mayhew between Watt and Bradshaw
(See map at http://www.dts.ca.gov/Training/map.asp)
Rick Langston will give two talks:
1) SAS v9.2: What's coming in 9.2 of SAS Foundation
This presentation is an overview of various new features that will debut in Version 9.2 of SAS Foundation, including information on new functions, formats, ODS features, options, procedures,and system features. and
2) A Walk Down Memory Lane
A talk previously given at lunch at the Philly SUGI
The third presentation is by Greg Snell:
3) Think FAST! Use Memory Tables (Hashing) for Faster Merging
The objective of this paper is to present a simple way to merge datasets using memory tables. Well, actually, it will be an associative array (orhash) object. However, by simply thinking of this "object" as an in-memorytable, it just may help you to grasp the hashing concepts and feel less intimidated about learning and using (what I believe is) the fastest method available for merging datasets.
Gregg P. Snell is the president of Data Savant Consulting, an Affiliate member of the SAS Alliance located in Shawnee, KS. Since 2000, Data SavantConsulting has provided short and long-term consulting to a number ofclients in the Kansas City metro area. Gregg holds SAS Certifications inV6, V8, and Advanced Programming; served as the Chair of the MWSUG Conference in 2001, the President of KCASUG in 2002 and 2003; and was an invited speaker in the Advanced Tutorials Section of SUGI 27, 28 and 31.
