SAS® Training Report December 2008 Subscribe | Unsubscribe | support.sas.com Dear Reader, The holiday season is here, and SAS Education is in the giving mood. In this issue you'll learn how we're supplementing our standard discounts with savings on airfare and car rentals and bulk training through our EPTO program. You can also take advantage of our 5 Days of SAS Training Deals. Read on for details of these great offers, along with programming tips and tricks, information on upcoming courses and more. See you in 2009, and thanks for a great year! Larry LaRusso Editor, SAS Training Report   SAS News December deals » December is a time for giving and receiving. Don't forget about your training needs as you enter the last month of 2008! Buy training in bulk for your group with our EPTO program or be surprised with our 5 Days of SAS Training Deals. Save on airfare and car rentals through December » SAS Education has partnered with American Airlines and Avis Rent-A-Car to offer special deals on travel to and from your SAS training classes during November and December. Don't miss out! Save 30 percent on new data mining book set » Purchase Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS and CRM Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner as a set by Dec. 31 and save 30 percent, a savings of $36.00. Offer available in U.S./Canada only. Be the 20,000 SAS certified professional » In coming weeks, we'll reach a milestone by awarding our 20,000th certified credential. Could it be you? The 20,000th SAS certified professional will be honored with special congratulations, including being profiled in SAS print and on-line publications. Credit Risk Modeling for Basel II Using SAS® » Join us Jan. 27-30, in New York, and overcome the challenge of building effective and high-performing credit risk models that meet Basel II requirements. Changes to SAS programming courses » Many of the SAS programming courses in the Data Manager curriculum have been enhanced based on customer feedback. In some cases, the titles and urls have changed. Check out the updated learning path and be sure to update your course bookmarks. Note: You do not need to retake the courses if you took the previous version.   Your Training Centers Our records indicate that you do not have a subscriber profile. A profile will enable you to receive customized course schedules for the training centers closest to you and articles in your chosen field of interest. Update your profile today. View complete course schedule and locations.   Events JMP Training--IQPC 9th Annual Six Sigma Summit» Jan 19-22, 2009 Orlando, FL SAS Global Forum 2009» Register today! March 22-25, 2009 Washington, DC   Coder's Corner Instructor Profile: Laura Ryan » "Being a JMP instructor is the perfect combination of statistics and teaching," Laura says. "I enjoy the interaction with students and the contributions that I can make to the JMP curriculum." Creating specialized SAS® Information Map filters » In SAS Information Map Studio, you can create a filter that will subset results based on a partial string value rather than the entire value of a data item. Question from the Field: » When is a correlated subquery desirable or necessary? This topic is covered in SAS SQL 1: Essentials. Answer compiled by instructors Linda Jolley, Warren Repole and Bruce Reed.   Quick Clicks SAS Training Web » SAS Certification » Live Web » Self-Paced e-Learning » Users Groups » SasCommunity.org » Samples & SAS Notes » SAS Global Forum » Business Knowledge Series »   Support Technical Support E-newsletter Archives » E-newsletter FAQ » Technical Problems » Don't miss important updates from SAS! Please add sas.com as a domain in your safe sender list. Your Subscription We hope that you enjoyed reading this e-newsletter. However, if you would rather not receive SAS e-newsletters in the future, return to our e-newsletter subscriptions site to log in and edit the subscription options in your profile.   SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. Copyright © 2008 SAS Institute Inc. All rights reserved Tech Support | Privacy Statement