- Paperback: 592 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US; 2nd edition (1 Dec 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 007913095X
- ISBN-13: 978-0079130952
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 19 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,513,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Aimed at computer professionals new to the world of SAS programming and support, this text comes with a bundled disk of all featured source codes.
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Format:Paperback
Not perfect, but excellent. After looking at the reviews on Amazon, I decided to postpone buying this book. My mistake. The is the best book on the SAS language within one set of covers. It should not be your first introduction to SAS, but after you have your feet wet and decide to jump in all the way, it is a must have.
In any situation you find yourself programming in SAS, you will not use all SAS has to offer. Certainly if you plan to take the certificataion test you will need to know more and this is one of the aids you need. Rick, or Mr. Aster to me, uses English, real English, the way people think and talk, to descibe SAS computereze.
Yes, it's heavily technical, but most people once they start thinking in the technical language cannot weave in and out of regular English. Rick can.
Format:Paperback
I agree with the previous reviewer on that this book is somewhat disappointing for professional SAS programmers - not very many "secrets" has been revealed actually. It didn't even explain clearly the key SAS programming concept of "Program Data Vector" while it claims to demonstrate how SAS engine works behind the scene. The new version is no much different from the old one but appending a SAS6.10 update list (like "what's new"). I suspect either the authors or the publisher or both didn't put much work on this new version - that's very un-professional! However, considering the sad fact that there's somehow few good SAS programming book out there, this classic one deserves some respect in SAS community. I read it 2 years ago and I found sometimes I still look it up as a reference on some topics - for the material it covers, it's rather solid.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Essential for the programmer analyst crowd.
3 Oct 1999
Format:Paperback
I have a masters degree in taxation. My company logically put me to work doing data analysis and project development. I use SAS, VB, ACCESS, EXCEL, whatever gets the job done. I do not speak, nor do I want to speak, COBOL. SAS is my only avenue to Main Frame data. What is available from SAS and from third parties is disgusting. This book is like the many comprehensive Windows books. I had never used SAS variable arrays before and this book taught me all I need to know. Probably not for the super SAS geek, but for those many of us needing to do our own data access and analysis using SAS, definitely the most complete single volume on the market. Well worth the money.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Excellent
25 Mar 1999
Format:Paperback
Not perfect, but excellent. After looking at the reviews on Amazon, I decided to postpone buying this book. My mistake. The is the best book on the SAS language within one set of covers. It should not be your first introduction to SAS, but after you have your feet wet and decide to jump in all the way, it is a must have.
In any situation you find yourself programming in SAS, you will not use all SAS has to offer. Certainly if you plan to take the certificataion test you will need to know more and this is one of the aids you need. Rick, or Mr. Aster to me, uses English, real English, the way people think and talk, to descibe SAS computereze.
Yes, it's heavily technical, but most people once they start thinking in the technical language cannot weave in and out of regular English. Rick can.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Needs to be updated
13 Jun 2000
Format:Paperback
This was an excellent book at the time it was written, but needs to be updated for the more recent versions of SAS and for changes of terminology usage prompted by relational data bases.
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