Chapter 1: Getting Started

1. Chapter 1: Getting Started

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started

3. Objectives • State the capabilities and major features of SAS Enterprise Guide software. • State the purpose of the different areas of the SAS Enterprise Guide workspace. • Name the steps in a typical SAS Enterprise Guide session.

4. Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

6. 1.01 Multiple Choice Poll • Describe your experience with SAS Enterprise Guide. • I had not heard of it until I was told to take this class. • I have seen other people use it. • I have used it a little. • I have used it extensively.

8. 1.02 Quiz What are your reasons for learning about SAS Enterprise Guide?

9. Introduction to SAS Enterprise Guide SAS Enterprise Guide provides a point-and-click interface for managing data and generating reports.

10. SAS Enterprise Guide Interface SAS Enterprise Guide also includes a full programming interface that can be used to write, edit, and submit SAS code.

12. 1.03 Multiple Choice Poll • Describe your experience with the SAS programming language. • I have never seen nor written SAS code. • I have seen SAS code that other people wrote. • I have written a little SAS code. • I have extensive experience writing SAS programs.

13. SAS Enterprise Guide Interface: The Project You can control the contents, sequencing, and updating of a project. e101d01.egp • A project is a single file that serves asa collection of • data sources • SAS programsand logs • tasks and queries • results • informational notes for documentation.

14. Building a SAS Enterprise Guide Project To begin work with SAS Enterprise Guide, you create a new project add data to the project 3. run tasks against the data. Additionally, you can 4. customize results automate the process.

15. Behind the Scenes As you build tasks, SAS Enterprise Guide generates SAS code.

16. Behind the Scenes z/OSMainframe Code UNIX Local User Windows Server ... SAS Enterprise Guide prepares SAS code, either generated through point-and-click tasks or written by the user, and submits the code to SAS. SAS can run on your PC or on a remote server.

17. Behind the Scenes z/OSMainframe UNIX Results Local User Windows Server SAS then executes the code and delivers the results to SAS Enterprise Guide.

19. 1.04 Multiple Choice Poll • What is your SAS Enterprise Guide configuration? • SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS on my PC • SAS Enterprise Guide on my PC and SAS on a Windows server • SAS Enterprise Guide on my PC and SAS on a UNIX server • SAS Enterprise Guide on my PC and SAS on an IBM z/OS (mainframe) server • Other • Not sure

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21. Objectives • Define the business need for the class demonstrations scenario. • Define the business need for the exercise scenario.

22. Filename Conventions e104d01x course ID chapter # type item # placeholder e104a01 e104a02 e104a02s e104d01 e104d02 e104e01 e104e02 e104s01 e104s02 Example: The SAS Enterprise Guide 1: Essentials course ID is e1, so e104d01 = SAS Enterprise Guide 1: Essentials, Chapter 4, Demo 1.

23. Three Levels of Exercises  You are not expected to complete all of the exercises in the time allotted. Choose the exercise or exercises that are at the level you are most comfortable with.

24. Orion Star Sports & Outdoors For the demonstrations and exercises, you will use data from Orion Star Sports & Outdoors. This is a fictitious global sports and outdoors retailer with traditional stores, an online store, and a large catalog business.The corporate headquarters is located in the United States with offices and stores in many countries throughout the world.Orion Star has approximately 1,000 employees and 90,000 customers, processes approximately 150,000 orders annually, and purchases products from 64 suppliers.

25. Orion Star Project Throughout the course, you build SAS Enterprise Guide projects that access various types of data sources, query the data to filter and join tables, and produce several different summary reports and graphs.

26. The SAS Help Facility Use the SAS Enterprise Guide Help facility for additional direction about SAS Enterprise Guide. Additional help is available online. support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/guide

27. Navigating the SAS Enterprise Guide Workspace This demonstration illustrates how to add a data set, create a task, and navigate the contents of the project in the SAS Enterprise Guide workspace.

29. Exercise This exercise reinforces the concepts discussed previously.

31. Chapter Review What is a project in SAS Enterprise Guide? What are three essentials to a SAS Enterprise Guide project? (Hint: All data processing works this way.)

32. Chapter Review Answers A project is a single file that is a collection of related data, tasks, SAS programs, and results that can be saved and opened by SAS Enterprise Guide. Add Data Run Task Explore Results What is a project in SAS Enterprise Guide? What are three essentials to a SAS Enterprise Guide project? (Hint: All data processing works this way.)

33. Chapter Review Does SAS Enterprise Guide execute the code after a task is submitted or run? If you want to restore the windows configuration to the original layout, you need to click on the Restore Window Layout button. Where is this button?

34. Chapter Review Answers No, the code that SAS Enterprise Guide creates is executed by SAS, either on your local machine or on a server. It can be found by selecting Tools  Options  General. Does SAS Enterprise Guide execute the code after a task is submitted or run? If you want to restore the windows configuration to the original layout, you need to click on the RestoreWindow Layout button. Where is this button?