A compact reference book for SAS software users, with descriptions of SAS language syntax, base SAS routines, options, and other essential information. The book starts with a brief introduction to SAS programming that may be sufficient to get computer-savvy college students and professional computer programmers started with SAS programming. The book's reference material is organized to make looking up information as quick as possible, to make all kinds of SAS programmers more productive. Its compact size makes it especially convenient for consultants and students.
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Purchasing this book may be the best investment you can make in your SAS programming work. Even if you already have all this information on your bookshelf -- spread out over thousands of pages in dozens of books -- it's faster and easier to have one book you can refer to for 90 percent of the questions that come up. Some professional SAS programmers using the first edition of this book have told us that they are saving an hour a week looking things up as they write SAS programs. If you save just one minute a day, this book pays for itself in a matter of weeks.
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If you had to pick just one book on SAS software, it would be this one.
This is it -- the one book you need to write SAS programs quickly and efficiently. Get the authoritative information you need about SAS syntax, routines, commands, and other features, including over 100 new features you won't find in older books. Whether you're a student or a professional, an advanced programmer or a beginner, at your desk or on the road, Professional SAS Programmer's Pocket Reference is a book you'll use every time you write a SAS program.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
It comes handy at some occasions.,
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This review is from: Professional SAS Programmer's Pocket Reference (Paperback)
I found it's very convenient to have a small pocket size SAS "dictionary" around my desk - like you forget how to spell a word you refer to a dictionary, this one provides very comprehensive and concise coverage of "words" in SAS language. Don't expect to learn anything about SAS from this book just like you can't learn Chinese by reading a Chinese dictionary. But once you're pretty familiar with SAS and start to try something out, this one comes handy - it reminds you "proc content" should be "proc contents" in fact and there is a special format "SSN" to process SSN related issues efficiently. I wish this book could be thicker, providing more detailed entries for each "word". A reasonable expand from 190s pages to 300 pages will make it more useful but still can fit in my pocket.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Great contents, terrible binding,
This review is from: Professional Sas Programmer's Pocket Reference (Paperback)
A professional programmer of the dutch SAS institute advised me to buy two exemplars of this reference guide. Contents are great and easy to understand (although I am afraid that I rather prefer sas online doc), but the quality of the binding is terrible: after an estimated 30 searches in the guide, pages ware falling out of the manual. From this point of view, 9 bucks excl. shipping is a bad deal.
Frank
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Classic SAS Users Manual,
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This review is from: Professional SAS Programmer's Pocket Reference (Paperback)
This is a good book to have available if you don't wish to take a look at one of SAS Institute's substantial publications or a reference manual published elsewhere. However, it isn't a guide I'd recommend to someone who isn't familiar with computer programming or SAS. It's best seen as a pocket dictionary of SAS programming - and it should be used as such.
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