This is the last of what I planned as a three-part miniseries sharing some thoughts on using SAS Enterprise Guide as a programmer. The first couple posts described what I think of as big benefits of Enterprise Guide: using process flows as a workspace to organize the code in a …
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Time for another confession. For more than a decade I have been running SAS jobs on UNIX servers, but I don’t really know any UNIX editors. Not Emacs. Not vi. I could work around this without SAS Enterprise Guide, but it was painful sometimes. Now that I have started using Enterprise …
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SAS Programmer meets SAS Enterprise Guide Process Flows
When an old school SAS programmer meets Enterprise Guide, I suspect often the first questions are along the lines of “what’s a Project?” “what’s a Process Flow?” and of course “Why do I need them, can’t I just code???” The honest answer is yes, …
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Hi. My name is Quentin. I’m a SAS programmer. And I’m starting to like SAS Enterprise Guide.
In the years since SAS introduced Enterprise Guide, there has been a lot of controversy and hard feelings in the SAS programming community. Many programmers see Enterprise Guide as a tool for newbie programmers, …
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If you need to get Enterprise Guide out to your users and you don’t want them to have access to the rest of the SAS software, create a software depot on a network location that only has the clients included. In order to do this you will need to do the following steps. […]
There’s an enormous number of capabilities in Enterprise Guide (EG). I’m not just referring to the wide range of tasks for data manipulation and data analysis, nor the fact that you can type your SAS code or you can drag and drop tasks to make a flow d…
Who says anyone is an expert at something? I definitely do not when it comes to SAS (well, anything for that matter). Each time I sit through a presentation at a conference I learn something new. During the SAS Western Users Conference, fondly know as …
SAS Education has released a free training course on What’s New in the SAS® Add-In 5.1 for Microsoft Office, SAS® Enterprise Guide® 5.1, and SAS® 9.3 Stored Processes. With this free training course you can stay up-to-date on the latest features a…