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SAS Programming for Enterprise Guide Users (SAS Press)

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This book is an excellent addition to your library if you are using Enterprise Guide and want to automate tasks or if you hit the limit on what you can do with the point and click system with EG. The writing is easy to understand and not too dense (but very informative). It covers issues like tweaking your projects so that they will run on multiple variables chosen from a pick-list (think macro variables made super easy if you know SAS code), exploring the code that EG writes for you and adding functionality that you can not get using the point and click system. The discussion of the SQL code written by the query tool is very well done and extremely useful if you want to understand then expand on the queries and filters that EG writes.

If you are a SAS programmer and get asked to help somebody learn EG this book will be very helpful because it makes it easy to track down the SAS code procedures within the EG graphical user interface.

I would highly recommend this for people who have read The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 4.1 The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide and who want to go beyond the basics in that book.

This is a good book. It is clear with good examples and easy to use. If you have Enterprise Guide version 3.0 you should read this first.