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  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! 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. |
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