Power SAS: A Survival Guide [Hardcover]

Kirk Lafler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 27, 2002

Power SAS: A Survival Guide is designed to provide the millions of SAS users with the largest and most comprehensive collection of SAS tips and techniques ever offered. Kirk Lafler is an Internet and software consultant with 25 years of experience providing clients around the world with innovative technical solutions and training. Kirk's tips will help you leverage features of SAS that even the most experienced SAS users may not know.

Whether you read it cover to cover, browse through it in your free time, or use it as a reference by looking up pertinent tips, this book is an invaluable self-help resource for working smarter, and for troubleshooting and resolving SAS problems and errors. The book's organization makes it easy for SAS users of all experience levels—programmers, statisticians, database programmers and administrators, technical managers, technical support staff, and students—to find what they need. The nine chapters cover SAS basics, data access, data step programming, data manipulation, data management, data presentation, efficiency and performance, configuration and support, and SAS 9.

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About the Author

Kirk Paul Lafler has worked as a software consultant for the last 25 years. As founder of Software Intelligence Corporation in 1983, Kirk provides IT services provider to Fortune 1000 companies and government installations by designing and developing application software solutions, and providing comprehensive training and custom programming services. Since 1983, Kirk has provided consulting services and training to Fortune 1000 companies and government installations, lending his expertise in application design and development, training, and custom programming services. Kirk has written four books and more than one hundred articles on technology and software. He's also a frequent speaker at SAS and Oracle user group conferences and events. Kirk graduated from the University of Miami with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in management science systems analysis. He can be reached at [e-mail] or through his website at Software-Intelligence.com.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (September 27, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159059066X
• ISBN-13: 978-1590590669
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,536,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Choppy and hard to read, April 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Power SAS: A Survival Guide (Hardcover)

My opinion is that this book is choppy, cryptic and hard to read. It has a strange format where the information is devided up into little blurbs, that made little if any sense. I would humbly recommend that the author take a writing course or two.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A lot of verbage, not much meat, January 12, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Power SAS: A Survival Guide (Hardcover)

If you are out to learn SAS, this book is probably not your best choice. If know SAS reasonably well and want a reference book, this book may or may not be for you. Very little examples of program code and output displays with too many subtitles, that do not flow well.

1.0 out of 5 stars Utterly and Completely useless, March 2, 2007

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This review is from: Power SAS: A Survival Guide (Hardcover)

This is without a doubt the lousiest, laziest, most poorly-written book I have ever tried to use on SAS. It only left me more confused.

The approach is a "survey" approach, ie, presented as a summary of the possible commands you can use, without an explanation of syntax, structure or programming ideas. This is clearly meant for computer programmers looking to pick up a little bit of info on SAS. Serious analysts will find nothing but chapter after chapter of mutant schlock-dribble.