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Steve Morton is a regular speaker at SAS® conferences and contributes articles to the independent Views newsletter.

Below are a selection of his papers in reverse chronological order.

A Comparison of Lookup Techniques
Or why you really ought to try the Hash object
(Views newsletter 3rd Quarter 2006, Issue 35)

Lookup is a common requirement in many SAS programs, and in SAS 9 a new method was introduced (Hash object in the data step). This article compares it with ‘traditional’ SAS techniques. Hash is also the basis of the new Lookup transform in SAS Data Integration Studio.

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Exploiting New Metadata with the SAS Data Step Interface
(Views newsletter 2nd Quarter 2005, Issue 29)

SAS 9 metadata is a rich repository of information that is available to XMLand Java interfaces. However, if you don’t have Java skills available SAS also offers an interface for data step programmers. This article illustrates how to utilise your existing SAS programming skills to access this new resource.

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