I have a love-hate relationship with spreadsheet data. I am interested in finding data to analyze, and if it arrives in the form of a spreadsheet, I’ll take it. And I like to deliver results and reports, but often my constituents ask for it as a spreadsheet that they can […]
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Export to Excel 2010 just got a little bit easier
In case you missed it, the first maintenance release for SAS 9.3 was recently released. Because we’re all friends here, you may call it “SAS 9.3M1” for short. Maintenance releases are usually about fixing problems that SAS has found or that customers have reported. However, sometimes a new capability might […]
Behind the scenes: importing Excel files using SAS Enterprise Guide
I hope that the following statement is not too controversial…but here it goes: Microsoft Excel is not a database system.
That is, I know that people do use it as a database, but it’s not an application that supports the rigor and discipline of…