1. IMPORTING DATA WITH DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) Or Proc Import?

2. Arizona Supreme Court

3. Business Process Collecting and Entering Data
Reporting
Monthly Statistical reports
Quarterly Revenue Survey
Annual Expenditure Survey
Annual Personnel Survey
Collection Method
Internet
Word Perfect
Word
Excel Spreadsheets
Fax Machine
Mail

4. The Problem
In Arizona 26 Maricopa County Justice Courts submit monthly statistical reports in Excel Spreadsheets.
Each spreadsheet consists of four worksheets forms.
The Excel forms make it very difficult to import rows and column of numeric data.

5. Form Sample

6. The Solution DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange)
DDE requires three Arguments
Application Name
Topic
Item

7. Options NOXWAIT and NOXSYNC

8. DDE Triplet Arguments

9. Drop and Retain

10. Final Product

11. The Problem
In Arizona 26 Maricopa County Justice Courts submit monthly statistical reports in Excel Spreadsheets.
Each spreadsheet consists of five worksheets.
Each worksheet consist of rows and columns of data, making it easy to import.

12. Data sample

13. The Solution Proc Import
Proc Import requires three Arguments
The complete path of the spreadsheet
Specify SAS data output, default is work folder
Specify DBMS (Database Management System) such as “xlsx”

14. Proc Import Solution Three Arguments

15. Clean-up fields

16. Proc Import Results

17. Summary Comparison DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) Proc Import
Requires three arguments
May require a lot more SAS code.
No additional SAS license required
Best used when importing from Excel Form
Proc Import
Requires three arguments
Requires few lines of SAS code.
Reading excel spreadsheets requires SAS/ACCESS license
Best used when importing raw data from Excel

18. Contact Information
Name: Humberto Cisneros, Senior Statistical Analyst Company: Arizona Supreme Court City/State: Phoenix, Arizona Phone: