Learning the Basics of SAS Enterprise Guide

Welcome to the Getting Started tutorial for SAS Enterprise Guide. As you complete the topics in this tutorial, you will learn to use the main features of SAS Enterprise Guide. You should complete the topics in order.

SAS Enterprise Guide includes sample data that you will use as you work through this tutorial. In the sample data directory there are three data files that contain data from a specialty foods store:

Products	a SAS data set that has data for products
Orders	a SAS data set that has data for product sales
FixWidth	a text file that has data for product categories

Using this data, you will run analyses and create reports that show product inventory, sales, and profit.

Reports and charts made in this tutorial

As you work through the tutorial, you will learn to do the following:

create and save projects
add SAS data to a project
explore SAS data in a SAS library
import data from a text file
create and modify a list report
create a bar chart and a pie chart
use a query to join tables
use a query to create a computed column
generate a table of summary statistics
run a linear model analysis on your data
combine reports into a single document
create a program and link it to query data
copy objects to a new process flow

In order to complete all of the topics in the tutorial, you must license the following SAS software products:

Base SAS
SAS/GRAPH
SAS/STAT

First you learn a little about the relationship between SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS software.