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Introduction

Data preparation: SAS Visual Data Builder,,

enables users to prepare data by summarizing,
joining, and reducing the data.

Data Exploration: SAS Visual Analytics Explorer it

is a drag- and-drop data interface that can be used
to explore data by using interactive visualizations
such as charts, histograms, and tables
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Introduction

Reporting: SAS Visual Analytics Designer, which

is a component of SAS Visual Analytics, used for
creating
reports or dashboards that can be
saved and viewed on multiple formats and
devices

SAS VISUAL DATA

BUILDER
PREPARE DATA

SAS VA DATA BUILDER

Visual Data Builder enables

you
to
import
Excel
data(*.xls,
or
*.xlsx
formats),
Any delimited text
files,
SAS data sets, Oracle
database tables,
Limited Load it into the inmemory LASR Server
4GB or less
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What Is a Query?
A query is a metadata object that manages the
references to input tables, output tables, staging
tables, joins, and summarizations from a SAS
Visual Data Builder session
You can create a new query by clicking
from
the navigation pane.

Tips for Appending Data

The following list includes some strategies for

appending data:
Design a query to load the baseline data to the output
table and run it.
Modify the query, or use Save As to create an identical
query and modify that one.
Select the Append data check box.
Add a filter on the Where or Having tab to select the
changed data.
Schedule the query.
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Specifying Properties for a Query

On the Properties tab, you can specify the following properties:
Name
Location
Description
Unique values
Append data
Designing Queries Manual code
Table
Location
output table metadata.
Library
Partition by
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About Staging Tables

SAS Visual Data Builder supports staging data.
Staging data is a best practice because you can
use SAS Visual Data Builder to access and transfer
data from operational systems once rather than
frequently interfere with the operational systems
and reduce their performance

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Specifying a Staging Table

To use a staging table:
1 Select the top-level query object from the
Properties tab.
2 The settings in the Output section must be set.
3 Expand the Staging section, and select the Use
a staging table check box.
4 Specify a library

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Output and Staging Table Interactions

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Adding Columns to a Query

Adding a New Column Manually

To add a new column manually:
1 Click the Column Editor tab.
2 Click at the bottom of the table.
3 Specify values for the Column Name, Expression, and Type fields. The remaining fields
are optional.

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Specifying a Column Expression

On the Column Editor tab, select table-name.columnname from the Expression column.
If you added a new column manually, then you need
to make sure that you specified a table name and a
column name.
Click to open the expression builder. The table name
and column name are added automatically as the
default SQL expression. On the Fields tab, select
columns from the source tables that you have added
to the query
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Specifying Aggregations

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