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SAS to MySQL: Extract data dictionaries from SAS file into MySQL

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Greg Neyman

This class can extract data dictionaries from SAS file into MySQL.

It can parse SAS files and extract values of data dictionaries (Format, Input, Label).

The class creates a table on MySQL database to insert the extracted data.

It replaces numeric data values with full text data.

The class can optimize data replacing VARCHAR default into appropriate INT or ENUM for easier data browsing. It also split tables along columns when there are too many columns during optimization.

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January 2017
Number 12		 SAS is a programming language used for statistical analysis.

Its source code may include the definition of arrays of data, also known as data dictionaries.

This package can extract data dictionaries from SAS files into a MySQL database.

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Example

<?php
/*
The definition files I've built this off of are ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Dataset_Documentation/NHAMCS/sas
The data files are ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/NCHS/Datasets/NHAMCS

Hilariously the public version of ed13for.txt has an error in it. This is good, it prompted me to write in error checking into the class.
*/
$link=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","nhamcs") or die($link->error);
include("sas2sql.php");
$thingy= new sas2sql();
foreach(array("format"=>"ed14"."for.txt","input"=>"ed14"."inp.txt","label"=>"ed14"."lab.txt","data"=>"ED2014") as $k=>$v){
  $fh=fopen($v,"r");
  $thingy->$k=fread($fh,filesize($v));
  fclose($fh);
}
$thingy->data=trim($thingy->data);
$thingy->name="ed2014";
$thingy->comm=true;
$thingy->save="ed2014.sql";
$thingy->convert();
foreach(explode(";",$thingy->query) as $query) {
    if(!empty(trim($query))) $link->query($query) or die($link->error);
}
$result=$link->query($thingy->split_query());
foreach(explode(";",$thingy->split_results($result->fetch_all(),12)) as $query) {
    if(!empty(trim($query))) $link->query($query) or die($link->error);
}
$result=$link->query("SHOW TABLES WHERE `Tables_in_nhamcs` LIKE 'ed2014%'") or die($link->error);
$tables=$result->fetch_all();
foreach($tables as $table) {
    $result=$link->query($thingy->optimise_query($table[0]));
    foreach(explode(";",$thingy->optimise_results($result->fetch_all(),$table[0])) as $query) {
        if(!empty(trim($query))) $link->query($query) or die($link->error.$table[0]);
    }
}
?>

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