What’s New

This third edition of The Little SAS Book: A Primer includes features added since SAS 7—and there are a lot of them. When we wrote the second edition, the basic structure of the Output Delivery System (ODS) was in place, but few of its features were. Since then, flesh has been added to the bones and ODS now has a multitude of destinations and options. So, we have added a new chapter devoted entirely to ODS.

Exporting data is another greatly expanded topic. In previous editions we had a few scattered sections describing how to get data out of SAS for use in other applications, but the number of ways and number of types of files you can create has grown to the point that we felt a need to give these topics a chapter all their own.

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