The main advantage of version 9 is faster execution of applications and centralized access of data and support.

There are lots of changes has been made in the version 9 when we compared with the version 8. The following are the few:

• SAS version 9 supports Formats longer than 8 bytes & is not POSSIBLE with version 8.
• Length for Numeric format allowed in version 9 is 32 where as 8 in version 8.
• Length for Character NAMES in version 9 is 31 where as in version 8 is 32.
• Length for numeric informat in version 9 is 31, 8 in version 8.

Length for character names is 30, 32 in version 8.3 new INFORMATS are available in version 9 to convert various date, time and datetime forms of data into a SAS date or SAS time.

• ANYDTDTEW. - Converts to a SAS date value
• ANYDTTMEW. - Converts to a SAS time value.
• ANYDTDTMW. -Converts to a SAS datetime value.CALL SYMPUTX Macro statement is added in the version 9 which creates a macro variable at execution time in the data step by
• Trimming trailing blanks
• Automatically converting numeric value to character.

New ODS option (COLUMN OPTION) is included to create a multiple columns in the output.

The main advantage of version 9 is faster execution of applications and centralized access of data and support.

There are lots of changes has been made in the version 9 when we compared with the version 8. The following are the few:

Length for character names is 30, 32 in version 8.3 new informats are available in version 9 to convert various date, time and datetime forms of data into a SAS date or SAS time.

New ODS option (COLUMN OPTION) is included to create a multiple columns in the output.