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Writing this book has been exciting, tiring, fascinating, challenging, and ultimately a very gratifying task. We worked hard to ensure that it provides a very broad but practical look at SAS 9. Here is an outline of the chapters that are planned (pending final reviews, tweaks, and page constraints):  

High-Level Table of Contents
Part I: Welcome to SAS!  

Chapter 1: Touring the Wonderful World SAS
Chapter 2: Connecting with SAS: Enterprise Guide
Chapter 3: Six-Minute Abs: Getting Miraculous Results with SAS

Part II: Gathering Data and Presenting Information  

Chapter 4: Accessing Data: Oh, the Choices!                           
Chapter 5: Managing Data: I Can Do That?!                            
Chapter 6: Show Me a Report in Under a Minute!                               
Chapter 7: Making Graphs of Every Shape and Size!   

Part III: Impressing Your Boss with Your SAS Analytic Intelligence  

Chapter 8: A Painless Introduction to Analytics
Chapter 9: More Analytics: Quality, Forecasting, and Mining

Part IV: Enhancing and Sharing Your SAS Masterpieces  

Chapter 10: Making It Pretty: Controlling Your Output  
Chapter 11: Leveraging Work from SAS to Those Less Fortunate
Chapter 12: OLAP: Impressing Your Coworkers                                 
Chapter 13: But I Love Excel: The Good News from SAS
Chapter 14: Web Fever: Yeah, SAS Has That Covered

Part V: Getting SAS Ready to Rock ’n’ Roll  

Chapter 15: Setting It All Up
Chapter 16: Taming the Data Beast
Chapter 17: The New World Meets the Old: Programmers and Enterprise Guide

Part VI: The Part of Tens  

Chapter 18: Ten Enterprise Guide Productivity Tips   
Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Administrators Only 
Chapter 20: Ten Resources for Extra Info

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Posted on July 25th, 2007 by Stephen McDaniel