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Introduction to "Saving Time and Money Using SAS"
Get the most from your SAS software!
In this expert collection of strategic and tactical solutions, author Philip Holland shows you how to save time and money by making the most of your SAS software. You'll gain a deeper knowledge of your existing SAS components, improve your coding efficiency, and learn how to develop applications that are easier to maintain. Filled with invaluable tips and hints and with coding examples that can be adapted to your specific projects, this book is the ultimate reference source that you will reach for again and again as you develop your business processes.
You'll learn how to perform many tasks, including the following:
- access SAS data by using the SAS ODBC Driver, DDE, and SAS Integration Technologies
- make productive use of available space in mainframe, Windows, and UNIX environments
- produce portable graphic report formats by using SAS/GRAPH
- import data from and export data to external databases and spreadsheets without using SAS/ACCESS
- read specific data types from flat files into SAS data sets
- develop SAS applications by using SAS Enterprise Guide
Whether you're a beginner or an advanced SAS programmer, this guide will increase your understanding of SAS and help you get the full value from your SAS software!
Now available from SAS Press, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Blackwell Books.
What you will find in this book
- Accessing SAS Data without Using SAS Code (code to read SAS data from Access, Excel, VB, 1-2-3, Approach and OpenOffice.org, using ODBC, OLE, DDE and ADO)
- Out of Space with SAS Software? (saving disk space in your SAS programs)
- Why Does My Job Run So Slowly? (improved DB2 to SAS data transfers and SAS data processing performance)
- Distributing SAS/GRAPH Reports (which graphics output file created by SAS is the best for you?)
- Importing Data from and Exporting Data to Databases without SAS/ACCESS (reading from and writing to databases and spreadsheets using Base SAS)
- Developing SAS Applications Using SAS Enterprise Guide (hints and tips for making the best use of Enterprise Guide)
Book-related SAS conference papers
- Accessing SAS Data without using SAS Code
- Accessing SAS Data without using SAS Code
- Outta Space with SAS Software?
- Outta Space with SAS Software?
- Why Does My Job Run Soooo Sloooowly...?
- Why Does My Job Run Soooo Sloooowly...?
- Help, I've Received a Spreadsheet File from StarOffice Calc.....!
- Help, I've Received a Spreadsheet File from StarOffice Calc.....!
- Enterprise Guide - Past and Future - A Case Study
- Enterprise Guide - Past and Future - A Case Study
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