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[last updated - 26 Mar 2008]
Introduction
Your most important source of information on how to use SAS software will
always be the official documentation. This is available online and in this
form it is easy to search for the topic of interest. You should refer to
the online documentation often and learn what is there and how to navigate
the site. The tips you can link to on this page do not overlap what you
will find in the online documentation. They are mostly of a broader topic
nature and aim to cover real-life situations you will encounter in your
programming work. You can link to the online SAS documentation below. This
page will allow you to navigate to older and newer versions.
SAS
On-line Documentation
Sources of SAS tips
You can find a lot of good SAS tips on the Internet. Don't think this site
of my web site as a definitive source. It certainly is not. I often look
at the sas Technical Support site to see examples of usage and to attempt
to resolve problems. Outside the official sas site there is the www.sconsig.com
web site that has hundreds of useful tips and code that you can download.
You can also search that site for the information you need just like you
can the sas Technical Support site. There are plenty of useful examples
in the official online sas documentation that you can link to above so
there are plenty of tips out there. And if you are really stuck then there
is the comp.soft-sys.sas newsgroup.
So long as you have posting access, you can post your questions or problems
there and somebody should respond quite quickly. There is also a mailing
list called SAS-L that sits behind that newsgroup. For information on how
to subscribe to the list, then check out the www.sconsig.com
web site.
My SAS tips
I started writing sas code in late 1986 and have been doing so ever since.
I've encountered all sorts of problems over the course of these years so
I have a lot of tips to give, based on my experience in coding with the
language. Allow my "pain" to be your "gain" as you read the tips you can
link to below. As I think of other tips, I will add new pages at the
end of this list of links.