Saving Time and Money Using SAS (Sas Press) [Paperback]

Philip Holland (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590475747 | ISBN-13: 978-1590475744 | Publication Date: July 26, 2007 | Edition: 1st

Get the most from your SAS software! In this expert collection of strategic and tactical solutions, author Philip Holland shows you how to save time and money by making the most of your SAS software. You'll gain a deeper knowledge of your existing SAS components, improve your coding efficiency, and learn how to develop applications that are easier to maintain. Filled with invaluable tips and hints and with coding examples that can be adapted to your specific projects, this book is the ultimate reference source that you will reach for again and again as you develop your business processes. You'll learn how to perform many tasks, including the following: access SAS data by using the SAS ODBC Driver, DDE, and SAS Integration Technologies make productive use of available space in mainframe, Windows, and UNIX environments produce portable graphic report formats by using SAS/GRAPH import data from and export data to external databases and spreadsheets without using SAS/ACCESS read specific data types from flat files into SAS data sets develop SAS applications by using SAS Enterprise Guide Whether you're a beginner or an advanced SAS programmer, this guide will increase your understanding of SAS and help you get the full value from your SAS software!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Efficient software means reduced costs and maximum return on an organization's investment. The SAS System provides a myriad of tools to solve business problems, but the most efficient techniques are seldom obvious and often overlooked. What the programmer needs is a detailed reference manual, an efficiency tutorial, and a friendly mentor all rolled into one. That's what this book provides in superb fashion. Philip Holland has taken several of the key issues, explained the problems, suggested solutions, and even provided sample code. Keep this book on your desk!"

Peter Bennett
Director, I.T. Training Services Limited, UK

"At first glance I thought that this might be just another book of SAS coding examples. Not so! A closer inspection shows that this book is all about the problems and issues, some big and some small, that are sure to cause heartburn when they are encountered. It provides both standard and nonstandard solutions to a wide variety of production situations. Before you pull your hair out, grab this book…it will save you both time and money. "

--Art Carpenter
California Occidental Consultants<

About the Author

Philip R. Holland advises a broad range of clients throughout Europe and the United States as an independent consultant and founder of Holland Numerics Ltd., a SAS technical consultancy. A SAS user since 1981, he has worked on all of the major computing platforms that support SAS software, and he frequently speaks on a wide range of topics related to SAS at conferences around the globe. Phil is the editor of VIEWS News, the quarterly journal of the VIEWS International SAS Programming Community, and he has been a VIEWS committee member since 2002. He is a SAS Certified Advanced Programmer, a member of the British Computer Society, and a Chartered Information Technology Practitioner.

Product Details

• Paperback: 248 pages
• Publisher: SAS Publishing; 1st edition (July 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590475747
• ISBN-13: 978-1590475744
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,316,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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