SAS - help!

[cojak]

I know you do SG, I was talking to the OP...

[Flubster]

I know you do SG, I was talking to the OP...

I suppose it depends what the OP will be using SAS for. It's not just a stats package, don't you know.

[sasguru]

Aye if he's doing data step programming, a competent and smart programmer with other language experience can pick that up in a week.

[Flubster]

Aye if he's doing data step programming, a competent and smart programmer with other language experience can pick that up in a week.

Or just use PROC SQL and take out any non-SAS specific code...

Or for the real SAS newbies, use EG.

[Old Greg]

a competent and smart programmer

will stand out like a sore thumb here. Let's assume the worst.

[cojak]

I suppose it depends what the OP will be using SAS for. It's not just a stats package, don't you know.

I realise that, but that's its strength - there are other languages out there that can do bog standard stuff better.

[gadgetman]

Hmm, what have I started here?

As I mentioned, I am in Test. There are loads of SAS developers beavering away here.

I am going to be testing some reports and the configuration of some off-the-shelf SAS tools (i.e. I'm not testing the tools), which is why I thought in may be helpful to do some offline research.

TBH I thought it was a database a la Oracle but from the above posts I guess that's not quite right...

[cojak]

TBH I thought it was a database a la Oracle but from the above posts I guess that's not quite right...

Oh Dear(tm)

[sasguru]

I realise that, but that's its strength - there are other languages out there that can do bog standard stuff better.

Wrong - nothing does bog-standard data analysis better.

[Flubster]

TBH I thought it was a database a la Oracle but from the above posts I guess that's not quite right...

SAS has it's own proprietry database, but can store/read data from practically any other data source. No reason why they couldn't read data from DB2 then store in Oracle, but then that would be like giving you a speedboat and saying you can't turn on the engine, but here's some oars.

SAS, like BO (spit) are trying to deliver end-to-end solutions from data warehousing through to MI delivery...

HTH