Saving Time and Money Using SAS - Softcover

Holland, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590475747 ISBN 13: 9781590475744

Publisher: SAS Institute, 2007

Synopsis

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, Saving Time and Money Using SAS will increase your understanding of SAS and help you get the full value from your SAS software!

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About the Author

Philip R. Holland advises a broad range of clients throughout Europe and the United States as an independent consultant and founder of Holland Numerics Ltd., a SAS technical consultancy. A SAS user since 1981, he has worked on all of the major computing platforms that support SAS software, and he frequently speaks on a wide range of topics related to SAS at conferences around the globe. Phil is the editor of VIEWS News, the quarterly journal of the VIEWS International SAS Programming Community, and he has been a VIEWS committee member since 2002. He is a SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, a member of the British Computer Society, and a Chartered Information Technology Practitioner.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAS Institute
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1590475747
• ISBN 13: 9781590475744
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248