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ENTERPRISE GUIDE 4.3: PROGRAMMING
GAINS FROM POINTING & CLICKING
MATT MALCZEWSKI, SAS CANADA
MAY 2013
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QUICK SURVEY
• SAS Programmers?
• SAS Enterprise Guide Users?
• SAS Programmers who are now being forced to use Enterprise Guide even though
you don’t want to and you work much more efficiently in Base SAS anyways and
you can’t even figure out where to begin with this frustrating interface ARGH.
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A QUICK ‘THANK
YOU’
• Information shamelessly (but gratefully) stolen from talks delivered by:
• Audimar Bangi, Chris Hemedinger & Stephen Slocum
• James Waite
• Andy Revenna
• Jennifer Bjurstrom
• All talks found through the SAS Global Forum Proceedings
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AGENDA
• Autocomplete/Syntax suggestion
• Enhanced process flows (Autoexec)
• Hot keys
• Code formatting
• Code Analyzer
• Some handy tips
• Options
• Project log
• Enterprise Guide 5.1
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AUTOCOMPLETE
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SYNTAX SUGGESTION
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AVAILABLE LIBRARIES & DATA MEMBERS
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FUNCTION COMPLETION/DISAMBIGUATION
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MACRO COMPLETION
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ENHANCED PROCESS FLOWS
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ENHANCED PROCESS FLOWS (AUTOEXEC)
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ENHANCED PROCESS FLOWS (AUTOEXEC)
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HOT KEYS
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‘I CAN TURN THIS ALL OFF, RIGHT?’
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CODE FORMATTING
data topn;
length rank 8; label rank="Rank";
set topn; by &category descending &measure;
if first.&category then rank=0; rank+1;
if rank le &n then output;
run;
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CODE ANALYZER
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HANDY TIPS: OPTIONS
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HANDY TIPS: OPTIONS
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HANDY TIPS: OPTIONS
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HANDY TIPS: OPTIONS
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HANDY TIPS: LOG
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HANDY TIPS: LOG
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HANDY TIPS: LOG
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EG 5.1
• High Performance Procedures
• HPCOUNTREG, HPDMDB, HPDS2, HPFOREST, HPLMIXED, HPLOGISTIC,
HPNEURAL, HPNLIN, HPREDUCE, HPREG, HPSEVERITY, HYPSAMPLE…
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EG 5.1
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SUMMARY
• ‘Options’ are your friend
• Lots of great time-saving techniques
• Autocorrect, syntax complete
• A more customizable – and programmer-friendly – experience than is often
believed
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RESOURCES
• New (Useful & Cool) Features of Enterprise Guide 4.3 (James Waite) http://www.sas.com/offices/NA/canada/downloads/presentations/VancouverMay11/Enterprise-Guide.pdf
• New Goodies in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 (Audimar Bangi, Chris
Hemedinger & Stephen Slocum) http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings10/137-2010.pdf
• Becoming a Better Programmer with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 (Andy
Ravenna)
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/307-2011.pdf
• Improving Your Relationship with SAS Enterprise Guide (Jennifer Bjurstrom)
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings13/415-2013.pdf
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THANK YOU
MATT MALCZEWSKI, SAS CANADA
TWITTER: @MALCHEW
LINKEDIN: MALCHEW
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