Welcome to the Virginia SAS User Group

Special Presentation: "Modernizing Your SAS Code, or How to Avoid Becoming a SAS Dinosaur"
by Warren Repole

Date: December 11, 2008
Location: Capital One
              West Creek Campus
              15000 Capital One Dr.
              Richmond, VA 23238

New features of the SAS programming language often permit the replacement of complex algorithms and clunky workarounds with more elegant code. Some enhancements support the creation of more efficient solutions. Occasionally, optimal techniques have existed for a while, but they have been overlooked or underutilized. Whether you are a SAS programmer with many years of experience or a novice user who is responsible for maintaining legacy programs, implementing updated approaches may allow you to streamline your SAS applications, expedite the development and debugging process, and minimize future maintenance of the code. This seminar covers a wide range of discrete tasks with programming solutions involving the DATA step, Base SAS procedures, formats and functions, SAS macro language, SAS/GRAPH, and the SAS/ACCESS interface to PC files. While some of the solutions exploit SAS 9.2 enhancements, many of them rely on features introduced in earlier SAS releases. The examples are adapted from Warren Repole's book, Don't Be a SAS® Dinosaur: Modernize Your SAS Code.

Please e-mail the VASUG secretary if you plan to attend

Fall 2008 Meeting: October 15 at the Tuckahoe Library

As always, there will be prizes.. so bring those business cards.. Meet the SAS community, network, and make those valuable connections to help enhance your knowledge !!

AGENDA
9:00      Library opens
9:15      Registration and networking
9:30      Claudine Lougee - Tips and Tricks to Make SAS Life Easier - 20 minutes
10:00     Sarat Gurram - Creating Practice Level Comparative Reports - 20 minutes
10:30     Business meeting with elections
10:45     Barbara Okerson - Using SAS® Graphics to Explore Behavioral Health Cost Risk - 20 minutes
11:15     Peter Eberhardt from SESUG - Crossing the Border: Steps to Writing SAS© Stored Processes - 50 minutes
12:15     Lunch
1:30      Andrea Zimmerman - SASR Graphs in Small Multiples - 50 minutes
2:30      Adjournment


If you plan to come, it would be very helpful if you sent me an email at Nat Wooding

Spring 2008 Meeting Presentations

Ken Borowiak – PRX Functions and Call Routines: There Is Hardly Anything Regular About Them
Carrie Mariner – Getting Started with Arrays and Do Loops
Carrie Mariner – Doing More with Arrays and Do Loops: When One Dimension Starts to Wear Thin    arrays2.sas    makedata1.sas    DataStep.zip
Barbara Okerson – Old But Not Obsolete
Nat Wooding – SAS Resources: Places to Find Answers and Ideas

2008 SAS Global Forum:

The Global Forum (formerly SUGI) will be held in San Antonio, Texas (March 16-19, 2008)
Conference info: SAS Global Forum 2008

2008 Regional Conferences:

SESUG will be held in St. Pete Beach, Florida (October 19-22, 2008) at the TradeWinds Island Resort
Conference info: http://www.sesug.org

NESUG will be held in Pittsburgh, PA (September 14-17, 2008) at the Pittsburgh Hilton Hotel
Conference info: http://www.nesug.org

One-day meetings formerly held at Dominion Virginia Power have recently been held at the Tuckahoe Library.

Tuckahoe Library
1901 Starling Dr
Richmond, VA

Directions: www.co.henrico.va.us/library/Branches/tu.html

For Directions to Dominion-> 5000 Dominion Blvd. Glen Allen, VA 23060

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Training/Education

SAS courses held locally at Strayer University in Glen Allen, VA. http://www.sas.com/apps/wtraining2/trainsched.jsp?sort=date&loc=ri&ctry=us

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Dominion Virginia Power, for the use of their beautiful facilities

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President Carrie Mariner	Vice President Brian Adams	Secretary Nat Wooding
Treasurer Dale Bleecher	Membership Barbara Okerson	SAS Liaison Andrea Zimmerman

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