In reply to Quentin.

Hi Quentin, Yes, I just used good old SAS code to perform the data preparation steps as I wanted to show the detail steps involved (and I know how much SAS users love SAS code ;-)). In a typical SAS Visual Analytics environment you would likely use the SAS Visual Analytics Data Builder application to perform most of these steps including loading data into memory (SAS LASR Analytic Server). While you can use any other SAS application (SAS DI Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide or even SAS Base) the very intuitive data builder application will be the easiest one as it is tightly integrated with the rest of the VA suite and helps getting data into VA in a very ETL-fashion way (UI query design, persist queries as job, scheduling, etc.). But yes, to answer your question - after data is loaded into LASR it becomes immediately available for consumption. Hope this helps. Cheers, Falko