Overview

The road to high-quality data analytics starts with consistent, accurate, and reliable data. SAS Data Quality enables you to cleanse your text-based enterprise data across multiple data sources and execution environments.

SAS Data Quality provides a set of SAS language elements that support data quality operations across all SAS platforms.

SAS Data Quality is included in an increasing number of SAS applications. The following table provides links to SAS assets that that describe the usage of data quality within SAS, or to information about products that utilize the data quality functionality.

SAS Assets Related to SAS Data Quality

SAS Software

Description

SAS Data Quality: Language Reference.

SAS procedures, functions, and related language elements that support data quality operations.

SAS Data Quality: CAS Action Programming Guide.

CAS actions enable administrators to programmatically manage SAS Quality Knowledge Bases in CAS.

SAS Viya Platform: Using the Command-Line Interface.

Command-line interface for QKB management.

SAS Event Stream Processing

SAS data quality functions cleanse data efficiently at the point of data entry, to support the Internet of Things.

SAS API for Data Quality

Returns information about a Quality Knowledge Base.

Last updated: February 15, 2026