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Updates for SAS 9.2 (March 2008)
See the compatibility calculator to determine whether you need to migrate your libraries to SAS 9.2. Use the PROC MIGRATE calculator to find the right example code for your migration.
Get a Smarter COMPARE
Validation tools for the MIGRATE procedure now work with CEDA and provide additional details about catalogs, indexes, and integrity constraints.
Start Planning
See Getting Started for the most efficient pathway through all of the SAS®9 migration documentation.
Coexistence
Many SAS®9 products can install side-by-side with SAS 8.2 with very good compatibility. See Peaceful Coexistence: SAS®9 and SAS 8.2 for details.
Sample Validation SOP
See an example SOP: SAS Installation Qualification / Operational Qualification (PDF) (updated 19 May 2008) for the pharmaceutical industry.

Migration

Migration Case Studies and Papers

Many of these papers were presented at SUGI. The subject matter spans both planning and execution of a migration project.

Case Studies

Q&A with a SAS^®9 Early Adopter: presents, in an interview format, the case study of a SAS Institute migration. Numerous planning ideas and best practices are discussed.

Papers

Top Ten Questions to Ask Before Your Data Migration (.pdf): identifies some hidden issues, such as locating your data libraries, migrating the trouble makers, maintaining access to unchanging data, and sweet-talking your system administrator. This information is from a SAS Presents talk by Diane Olson at SUGI 30.
Migration Planning Worksheet: helps get you started in the planning process and provides links to all known migration issues. All of the links' URLs are provided so that you can print this document and work from a paper copy with your own notes.
Peaceful Coexistence: SAS®9 and SAS 8.2: covers known issues when you install SAS®9 products side-by-side on the same machine as SAS 8.2. Read this paper for important cautions and links to product-specific guidelines.
PROC MIGRATE: How to Migrate Your Data and Know You've Done It Right! (.pdf): introduces PROC MIGRATE and compares it to the traditional copy procedures.
Easing Migration to SAS®9 (.pdf): is the flyer passed out at the migration booth during SUGI 28. Learn why SAS®9 is the most significant software release in the 26-year history of SAS.

PowerPoint Presentations

Some of these presentations include bonus presenters' notes, which you can read in Internet Explorer by selecting Edit Slides. Or you can save the document to your machine and open it in PowerPoint.

PROC MIGRATE: How to Migrate Your Data and Know You've Done It Right! (.ppt): is the presentation of the paper by the same name above.
PROC MIGRATE: Migrating SAS Data from 32-Bit to 64-Bit Libraries (.ppt): examines the issues that are specific to a 64-bit upgrade to SAS 9.1. Some of this information no longer applies in SAS 9.2.
Data Compatibility between V6, V8, and SAS®9 (.ppt): sums up the compatibility issues that arise when you do not migrate a file to SAS®9 format but instead just move or copy the file to the target installation. Best practices for compatibility, such as the V6CREATEUPDATE option, are discussed.
Migrating Data with SAS Management Console (.ppt): introduces an experimental plug-in that is under development for the SAS Management Console, a new interface for administrative tasks in SAS.
Migrating to SAS®9 (.ppt): explains how SAS®9 and the new Migration Community ease migration challenges. By David Shamlin, R&D Director, SAS Institute.