From the course: SAS® 9.4 Cert Prep: Part 02 Accessing Data

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts.

Types of data

Types of data - SAS Tutorial

From the course: SAS® 9.4 Cert Prep: Part 02 Accessing Data

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Types of data

“

- [Instructor] For the purposes of this course you can think of data as falling into one of two broad categories: structured or unstructured. A structured table has defined columns with attributes that help SAS or other applications know how to read and display the values. Structured data could include SAS tables, Microsoft Access tables, DBMS tables such as Oracle or Teradata, Hadoop, and many other options. SAS has engines that enable it to understand and read various types of structured data. By contrast, unstructured data does not have defined columns. The data might appear to be in columns such as tab-delimited data but to your computer it's just a long string of text. Examples of unstructured data are text files or comma-delimited files, JSON files, and weblogs. There is important information in these files but it's not in a defined structure. You have to import unstructured data into SAS before you can analyze or…

Contents