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Useful SAS Web Links
Presented by Michael Davis
Health Market Science
At PhilaSUG Meeting held on June 17, 2008
hosted by The Hartford Customer Services Group
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Topics to be Covered
How to navigate SAS Support site
Documentation
Notes and samples
Submitting questions to SAS Tech Support
Focus Area and Forums
SAS Training
SAS Books
Using SAS-L Listserv for unofficial answers
Mining SAS conference proceedings
SUGI/SGF
Regional/Special InterestOtherweb sites of interest to SAS users
PhilaSUG and other local SAS user groups
Regional SAS User Groups
SCONSIG.com and other specialized sites
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support.sas.com
A portal for help in using SAS software (vs marketing info)
Site updated in October 2007 (breaking links, dropping features)
Knowledge Base contains documentation, papers, samples,
SAS Notes and Focus Areas
Supportallows one to submit a problem, check track status, andread/post to discussion forums
Learning Centeris the link to the bookstore and training
Communityis the link to user groups, conferences,web
seminars, discussion forums, and sasCommunity.org (wiki)
Tip: Google site:sas.com
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support.sas.com
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Product Documentation Release 9.1.3
Link to Release 9.1.3 is
SAS Procedures
Find procedures across products alphabetically
Cut & paste from Examples to save typosTask Statement section often point to needed feature(s)
Base SAS
See SAS Language Reference: Dictionary for help with data set options,
formats, functions, and statements
See online manuals for SQL programming, macro language, ODS, andrunning SAS under windows (SAS Companion)
OtherTips
Use Search dialog when clueless
Use PDF manual when printing a section
http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/docMainpage.jsp
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Procedures Documentation
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Product Documentation Release 9.2
Link to Release 9.2 is
Click on a topic (e.g. SAS Reference)
Click on a subtopic (e.g. Functions)
Click on a book (e.g. SAS Language Reference: Dictionary)
Choose to view in HTML or as a PDF
Expand tree on left to drill to topic of interest
Most of the topics of interest toprogrammers can be found under
SAS Reference
http://support.sas.com/cdlsearch?ct=80000
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Samples and SAS Notes
Samples and Notes are now intertwined into a Knowledge Base
No more Tech Support FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Tips for Searching Samples and SAS Notes
Select Samples, Usage Notes, and/or Product NotesBrowse by suggested topics, then refine result
Use drop-down filters to winnow results
Other search tips
Use minus, -, to exclude search terms
Prefacing terms with title: restricts search to title
Enclose terms in quotes to return exact phrases
http://support.sas.com/kb
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search KB for pipe samples
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Submitting Problems via the Web
Why use web instead ofphone?
Submit problems when SAS Tech Support phones closed
Get best consultant for your question
Consultants can work on problem during phone duty
Link is
Site number changes for Release 9.2
Phone # is prefixed by country code (+1)
Check Problem Status links to Tracks system
Encapsulate yourproblem before sendingFaster resolution If your problem can be replicated by SAS
Supply data through DATALINES (CARDS) or SASUSER sample data
Strip out non-relevant portions before send
Your problem may go away when non-relevant code is removed !
http://support.sas.com/ctx/supportform/index.jsp
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SAS Focus Areas
Created by SAS R&D to share information about both new andexisting products. Link is
Mostly a mechanism to push papers, sample, code, and tipsabout a product or subject to users
At the bottomof each page is a mailto: link to send comments and
questions back to that R&D areaBase SAS covers DATA Step, ODS, SAS9 features, FAQs (frequentlyasked questions, also in SAS Notes)
Other focus areas include Data Visualization, Migration, Scalability,Statistics, and SAS AppDev Studio
Sending mail to is an alternative to posting questions to
R&D about ODS if the question relates to obscure ODS featuresThe mailto: link is also a good alternative if you are having problems withan experimental feature of SAS
Web section, which covered SAS/IntrNet is gone. See
http://support.sas.com/rnd/
http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/intrnet
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SAS Discussion Forums
Link:
Unlike SAS-L, SAS employees allowed topost to forums
New forums for SAS Procedures and SAS Macro Facility
One of the forums is devoted to Enterprise Guide
Most popular forums include ODS and Base Reporting
Unlike SAS Tech Support, conversation is public so avoid posting
proprietary information
http://support.sas.com/forums/
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SAS Discussion Forums
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SAS Training
Top level link is
Search for scheduled public and Live Web courses at:
Want to learn about SAS or Enterprise Guide for free?
Want to experiment with SAS on your home computer?
How do I get tomy local SAS office or see the courses offered at
my local SAS Office?
support.sas.com/training
support.sas.com/training/us
www.sas.com/apps/elearning/elearning_courses.jsp?cat=Free+Tutorials
support.sas.com/learn/le/index.html
support.sas.com/training/fyi
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What is SAS-L?
A LISTSERV based world-wide SAS discussion group that is
always open
Can post and search posted messages to the groupvia e-mail or
via a web interface. Link:
Good for best practices and advice that falls outside the range oftopics that SAS Tech Support addresses
Examples: SAS interview questions, ways to read MS Office documents
into SAS, problem setting up pipes to read Zip, GZ archives
When posting problems, include platform, SAS version, SAS Log
messages, meaningful subject line, and sample data ifpossible so
problem can be replicated
SAS-related jobs are posted on SAS-L
Not a good venue for questions involving proprietary information
listserv.uga.edu/archives/sas-l.html
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SAS-L Archives
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Post About PharmaSUG Proceedings
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sasCommunity.org
a global online SAS Community (Wiki) for SAS users
created by the SAS Global Users Group Executive Board
intended to be single entry point for SAS resources
can search entries via a Google appliance on the site
Can watch a page to be notified of changes
navigate via the main menu on the left
many SAS-related forums and blogs
Sasopedia is anotherway to find some of the links mentioned in
this presentation and more
Opportunity Registry has replaced the job referral binders at
SUGI/SGF
sasCommunity.org is a work-in-progress
remember that anyone can alter an entry!!!
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Mining Conference Proceedings
Presentations at regional and SUGI/SGF SAS conferences have
been published as PDF documents forover a decade and are
freely available via the web
Good source ofmini-tutorials and how-to information
Invited vs contributed presentationsSearch SUGI and SGF (SAS Global Forum, formerly SAS Users
Group International)proceedings at:
Tip: check out contributed paper award winners
e.g.Search SUGI/SGF and regional conference proceedings at:
http://support.sas.com/events/sasglobalforum/previous/online.html
http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2008/Awards07.pdf
http://www.lexjansen.com
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SAS Authored Conference Presentations
Invited conference papers verses SAS Presents
SAS Technical Papers:
Focus area have SAS presentations organized by R&D orproduct
area:
support.sas.com/resources/papers
http://support.sas.com/rnd
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Local SAS User Groups (LUGs)
Most local SAS user groups maintain a website:
Past and future meeting agendas and sign-up
Newsletters
Past presentations
Local SAS employment opportunitiesOther useful links
Good example of LUG websites
User Groups on SAS Web site:Find groups, see upcoming meetings
Find [vertically oriented] special-interest user groups
http://www.philasug.org
http://www.hasug.org
support.sas.com/usergroups
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Regional SAS User Groups
Raison d'tre of regional user groups is their annual conference
and theirwebsites reflect this narrow focus
NESUG also offers speaker-sharing funds
Membership in regional user groups is through affiliated LUGs
Primary source for learning about upcoming conferences
NESUG website has good FAQs section
Links topast conference proceedings on regional sites
Lex Jansen site can search past proceedings for single region
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SCONSIG website
SAS Consultant Special Interest Groupweb site
Link:
Many features of interest to general SAS community
Information on SAS-L
List of SAS training companiesBook reviews
Tips and Techniques
Many links to SAS jobs and job searching
Some non-SAS related information and links
Some of the links are obsolete
http://www.sconsig.com
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SCONSIG.comweb site
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Conclusion
The web offers many resources for solving SAS problems and
learning how to use new SAS features
Available 24x7
Links often shift but with some persistence, you can find the
information that you seek or remember seeing
Questions or comments? Please forward them to:
Telephone: 484-804-2703
http://healthmarketscience.com