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		<title>Chapter 10 &#8211; SQL INSERT and UPDATE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section I &#8211; INSERT When to use INSERT The INSERT statement is used primarily in three instances.  One is when you wish to enter a single row into a dataset.  The second is when you wish to load the results of a SELECT statement all at once into a table.  (In some systems, such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swade016.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3996875&amp;post=72&amp;subd=swade016&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 9 &#8211; SQL CREATE, DROP, and ALTER</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section I &#8211; Usage When to Use So far we’ve spent our time discovering how SQL can be used to aggregate, sort, and manipulate data for analysis and presentation purposes.  But everything we’ve done is under the assumption the data was already available.  In this lesson we’ll learn about the other part of SQL, architecture! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swade016.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3996875&amp;post=70&amp;subd=swade016&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 8 &#8211; SQL Case When</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section I &#8211; Usage What is the CASE expression The CASE expression is essentially the SQL version of “If-Then-Else”.  A CASE expression allows you to return a result that is conditionally evaluated for each row in your table.  Instead of using If [true] Then [NewValue], use the WHEN-THEN clauses when you want to execute a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swade016.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3996875&amp;post=68&amp;subd=swade016&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 7 &#8211; SQL Joins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section I &#8211; Usage What is a Join? Up to this point, we’ve only used single-table queries.  If the only analysis we ever did were on single-table databases, the queries we’ve learned so far would be all we would need!  However, analysis is never that easy.  Most production databases will be normalized in a snowflake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swade016.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3996875&amp;post=63&amp;subd=swade016&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 6 &#8211; Group By</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section I &#8211; Usage When to Use In SQL, data aggregations are done using one or more aggregation functions and sometimes the GROUP BY statement coupled with the HAVING statement. Using these functions, we can return data in a more usable format for reporting and analysis purposes. The HAVING statement allows us to constrain the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swade016.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3996875&amp;post=133&amp;subd=swade016&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 5 &#8211; SQL Functions, Math, and Coalesce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section I &#8211; Overview As with most every computer programming language, SQL supports the use of functions to manipulate data.  There are two types of functions in SQL; Those that produce strings and those that produce numbers.  However, it’s important to realize that functions in SAS SQL can be different than functions in other database [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swade016.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3996875&amp;post=59&amp;subd=swade016&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 4 &#8211; SQL WHERE Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section I - Structure and Output WHERE Structure As with all SAS procedures, the WHERE statement allows you to constrain the results of a procedure based on one or more conditional logic statements.  Every row that meats the criteria set forth in the statement will be in the resulting dataset.  Multiple constraining statements can be grouped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swade016.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3996875&amp;post=56&amp;subd=swade016&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 3 &#8211; SQL SELECT Statement</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section I &#8211; Structure and Output SAS Structure Since we are using the SAS version of SQL, every SQL statement must be surrounded by the following SAS statements: Proc SQL; [SQL Statements]; Quit; As you can see, line one tells SAS that we are going to be performing a SQL query, and as such, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swade016.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3996875&amp;post=54&amp;subd=swade016&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 2 &#8211; Introduction to SQL in SAS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 19:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section I - What is SQL? History SQL, or Structured Query Language, is a near universal database language and is used by anyone and everyone who works with databases.  SQL is designed for management and manipulation of data in a structured environment, usually a relational database, such as SQL Server.  Traditionally SQL is used for CRUD [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swade016.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3996875&amp;post=47&amp;subd=swade016&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 1 &#8211; Introduction to Analysis using SAS</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section I &#8211; The SAS Language SAS SAS (nee Statistical Analysis Software) is an application that uses non-compiled procedural programs (SAS programs) composed of a series of written instructions, called statements. As with all computer programming languages, the programs written are only as smart as the user allows them to be. In a SAS program, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swade016.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3996875&amp;post=1&amp;subd=swade016&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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