Instructor Profile: Gina Rayman

Gina Rayman has had a long and varied career with SAS. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English at North Carolina State University in 1985 and was working on her master's degree in English when a fellow graduate student told her about his great summer job at a company with an amazing café and cheap food. As a starving college student, Gina followed her friend's lead.

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Quick Tip: Creating a Java Web Service

This sample demonstrates how to create a Web service written in Java that can access SAS analytics through SAS Integration Technologies. Presenting a simple usage scenario, this sample Web service allows a user to check the credit limit for a customer given a customer name and ID number.

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Course Notes: 50% off Advanced Reporting Techniques Course

Advanced Reporting Techniques is a Level IV course for students who are already familiar with basic report writing techniques and who want to use more advanced techniques to create reports using SAS programming statements. Besides covering advanced data _NULL_ issues, this is the only course SAS offers that covers advanced aspects of topics such as compute block processing, absolute column addressing and usage of the call define statement in Proc Report. The course also covers aspects of Proc Tabulate, including creating percentages and formatting them, working with page dimensions, using options such as CLASSDATA and EXCLUSIVE and nesting in the row dimension.

A discussion of creating table templates and style templates is also included, as well as a discussion on using ODS with Proc Report and Proc Tabulate to change the appearance of the reports and perform traffic lighting. Students will come away from Advanced Reporting Techniques with better report problem-solving skills and with the ability to use the STYLE= override options in Proc Report and Proc Tabulate to send ODS style information to a result file in ODS destinations that support style. For a full list of topics covered, view the course outline.

As an SAS Training Report subscriber, you can take advantage of an exclusive 50% discount off the price of any currently scheduled U.S. offering of Advanced Reporting Techniques when you register here by March 24. (Please note: The Course Notes discount will not appear at the time of entry, but will be reflected on the invoice. This offer is available only by clicking on the above link and will not apply to other registrations or after the March 24 deadline.)

Recommended Statistics Titles by SAS Press

Now available through SAS Press! A collection of statistical references frequently recommended by SAS experts to customers seeking to enhance their use of SAS.
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Quick Tip: Get Clean PROC Output into Excel Using ODS

Many ODS users do not like all the additional formatting that using the default style introduces in the following example. Without an ODS EXCEL option, how do you get clean output into Excel? There IS a nice way to get very clean PROC output into Excel using ODS!
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Early Birds Save Big on JMP User Conference

Register before April 1st for the Third Annual JMP User Conference and save $200. Don't miss out on the premier event for all JMP Users. Come to learn new ideas and best practices to maximize your JMP software usage; leave with a competitive edge, a network of peers and the knowledge to make a difference in your organization.

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Train to Be a SAS Certified Professional with Self-Paced e-Learning

One of the most valued certifications in the business world is SAS programming. With Self-Paced e-Learning, you can prepare for the SAS Base Programming and/or the SAS Advanced Programming Certification exams with the only courses authorized by the SAS Certified Professional Program.

Course content is tailored to exam preparation. Each course includes a Practice Exam that tests the same knowledge and skills as the official certification exam. The practice exams are also available separately. The exams for SAS Base Programming and SAS Advanced Programming certifications are available until December 31, 2006. These certifications are valid for three years.

A SAS Self-Paced e-Learning course and practice exam is also available for SAS Base Programming for SAS®9 certification. This certification exam is not yet available. See support.sas.com/certification for more information about the current and upcoming certification exams. Visit support.sas.com/selfpaced to view more training options.

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