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SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

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Audience

This course is designed for Computer Users as an introduction to Enterprise Guide software.

Prerequisites

Attendees will need some knowledge of their own computer systems and be able to use a keyboard and a mouse.

Objectives

This course is an introduction to Enterprise Guide Software, a point and click interface to the SAS System.  After the course, attendees will be able to use Enterprise Guide to create projects, access, manage and manipulate their data, construct queries, run tasks, create and customise graphs and produce process flow diagrams.

This course is designed to be used in conjunction with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3.

Topics

E1 lntroduction

  • What is SAS?
  • What is SAS Enterprise Guide?
  • An Example SAS Enterprise Guide Project
  • Introduction to the Environment 
  • Opening and Viewing Data
  • What is a Library?
  • Workshop Session

E5 Filtering and Sorting

  • Filter and Sort vs Query Builder and Sort Task
  • Selecting Variables
  • Filtering
  • Advanced Edit
  • Sorting
  • Controlling Results
  • Additional Options
  • Workshop Session

E2 Enterprise Guide Projects

  • Project Handling
  • Process Flow Window
  • Working with SAS Programs
  • Workshop Session

E6 Joining Tables of Data 

  • Introduction to the Query Builder
  • Joining Tables
  • Workshop Session

E3 Working with Tasks

  • Overview of Tasks
  • Selecting Data for Tasks
  • Adding Tasks to a Project
  • Assigning Variables to Roles and Running Tasks
  • Viewing Task Output and Log
  • Customising SAS Code Behind Tasks (Reference)
  • Task Templates
  • Conditional Processing
  • Workshop Session

E7 Computing New Columns

  • Creating Computed Columns
  • Computing Summary Statistics
  • Calculations with Date and Time
  • Additional Query Builder Options 
  • Workshop Session

E4 Managing Data

  • Opening Data in Enterprise Guide
  • Importing Data into Enterprise Guide
  • Exporting Data from Enterprise Guide
  • Creating and Applying Formats
  • Manipulating Data
  • Workshop Session

E8 Describing and Reporting Data

  • Describing Data
  • Visualising Data
  • Style Manager
  • Create a Report from Existing Results
  • Workshop Session

E9 Prompts

  • Using the Prompts Manager
  • Creating Prompt Driven Queries
  • Using Date Values with Prompts
  • Workshop Session

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