You will gain a deeper knowledge of existing components of SAS, improve coding efficiency, and learn how to develop applications that are easier to maintain. You'll learn how to do many tasks, including the following: access SAS data by using SAS ODBC Driver, DDE, and SAS Integration Technologies productive use of available space on the mainframe, Windows, and UNIX environments produce portable format graphical reports using SAS / GRAPH data import from and export data to external databases and spreadsheets without using SAS / ACCESS read certain types of data from flat files into SAS data sets develop SAS applications by using SAS Enterprise Guide Whether you're a beginner or advanced SAS programmer, this guide will enhance your understanding of SAS and help you get full value from your SAS software!