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Course fee and EPTO/APTO units differ for on-site training.SAS Programming for SAS Enterprise Guide Users
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Classroom duration: 2.0 days Live Web duration: 4 half-day sessions Please note the System Requirements below. Course fee: $950 EPTO units: 1.8 CEUs: 1.2 | ||
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This course is for experienced SAS Enterprise Guide users who want to gain extra value from the product by understanding the code that it generates and methods of enhancing that code. The course will serve as a transition into the programming world of SAS and serves as a prerequisite for the SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques course.
Learn how to
- analyze the way in which SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS programs work together
- evaluate the structure and syntax of a SAS program
- manipulate SAS data sets using the DATA step
- read delimited text files using the DATA step
- merge tables and isolate matching and non-matching rows using the DATA step
- customize task output by modifying the code that is generated by SAS Enterprise Guide.
Who should attend
SAS Enterprise Guide users who are interested in learning about writing SAS programs and modifying the SAS code generated by SAS Enterprise Guide
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Prerequisites
Before attending this course you should have completed the Querying and Reporting Using SAS Enterprise Guide course or have equivalent experience.
Course Contents
Why Learn SAS Programming?
- course logistics
- reviewing SAS Enterprise Guide basics
- benefits of understanding SAS programming
- introduction to SAS programs
- SAS programming concepts
- diagnosing and correcting syntax errors
- accessing SAS data libraries
- accessing relational databases (self-study)
- comparing the DATA step with the Filter and Query task
- DATA step basics
- DATA step processing
- conditional processing
- additional operators and format (self-study)
- reading delimited data
- examining data errors
- retaining values in the PDV (self-study)
- merging data using the DATA step
- concatenating data
- appending data (self-study)
- understanding the generated code
- interacting with the generated code
- getting help (self-study)
- enhancing titles and footnotes
- using run-time parameters with code
- conditional highlighting
- the Output Delivery System
- customizing HTML output
- customizing RTF output
- customizing PDF output
- SAS resources
- beyond this course
Software
This course addresses SAS Enterprise Guide, Base SAS.
Course Materials
Classroom: Students attend classroom courses in one of our public training centers. You receive
a hardcopy of the course notes and, in some courses, can choose to take home a copy of the course data.
Live Web: Students attend Live Web classes using a Web browser and a telephone and interact with their instructor and fellow classmates in real time. Each student receives an e-mail with instructions on how to join the class three business days before the class begins. The instructions e-mail includes a link to download the course materials. Students need to download and print the course materials prior to class.
Live Web: Students attend Live Web classes using a Web browser and a telephone and interact with their instructor and fellow classmates in real time. Each student receives an e-mail with instructions on how to join the class three business days before the class begins. The instructions e-mail includes a link to download the course materials. Students need to download and print the course materials prior to class.
System Requirements
For Live Web, you must
- review and meet the general system requirements.
- complete the course exercises through our virtual lab. The virtual lab allows you to access the software used in class over the Internet, so that you do not need this software on your local machine.
- run this
test to connect to a virtual lab session. If firewall problems prevent you from connecting to the virtual lab, then you will need the following software installed and configured in your environment to participate in the course exercises:
- SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 and Base SAS 8.2 or higher, both running on a PC (Windows 98 or higher required). Follow these steps to ensure that SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS are configured correctly.
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