Earlier this year we quietly updated The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition. While these changes didn’t get a lot of attention, they are, in our opinion, critical to keeping The Little SAS Book useful and accurate. This is especially important for beginners who can’t be expected to know the history of SAS software or how […]
Tag: Enterprise guide
Ignore This Blog Post
The Little SAS Book, Sixth Edition is now a year old. I have already written posts about What’s New in this edition, and the very cool XLSX LIBNAME engine. So what more is there to say? A lot, it turns out. The Sixth Edition was our biggest rewrite since the Second Edition introduced the new […]
Accessing Excel Files Using LIBNAME XLSX
If you have been using SAS for long, you have probably noticed that there is generally more than one way to do anything. The Little SAS Book has long covered reading and writing Microsoft Excel files with the IMPORT and EXPORT procedures, but for the Sixth Edition we decided it was time to add two […]
The Little SAS Book 6.0: What’s New
Six editions is a lot! If you had told us, back when we wrote the first edition of The Little SAS Book, that someday we would write a sixth; we would have wondered how we could possibly find that much to say. After all, it is supposed to be The Little SAS Book, isn’t it? But […]
New Performance-Based Certification: Write SAS Code During Your Exam
SAS has worked with our exam delivery partners to integrate a live lab into an exam, which can be delivered anywhere, anytime, on-demand.
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Introducing The Little SAS Enterprise Guide Book
There is a new member of The Little SAS Book family: The Little SAS Enterprise Guide Book. This book is for people who use SAS Enterprise Guide as their interface. EG is a point-and-click interface for SAS, but it’s great for programmers too. And this book includes a new chapter covering the wonderful features for […]
New features in SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1
SAS Enterprise Guide has come a long way since version 1.0 was released in 1999! Are any of you original users that remember the Help characters, Clippy, Peedy or Merlin? I was working as a statistician for another company that year, and I attended a SAS user group meeting where […]
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What’s Your SAS Interface?
These days SAS programmers have more choices than ever before about how to run SAS. They can use the old Display Manager interface, or SAS Enterprise Guide, or the new kid on the block: SAS Studio. All of these are included with Base SAS. Once upon a time, the only choices were Display Manager (officially […]