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A SAS® blog for the rest of us![An "Enterprise Guide" in a parallel universe](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
Dear Readers, You might visit this blog for many reasons, chief among them to learn useful information about SAS. You know that I often post tips about SAS Enterprise Guide, and sometimes people go so far as to call this a "SAS Enterprise Guide" blog*. But for all of the
![Smart Cats with blogs on stats](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/LearnSAS-3.png)
Let's face it: ever since cats learned how to access the Internet, they've managed to besmirch their prestigious status as the "smarter-if-a-bit-aloof" pet. They've starred in many demeaning YouTube videos, bringing shame to their species for the sake of some cheap laughs. But I'm here to tell you: there are
![Peek at your data using VBScript, OLE DB, and the SAS local data provider](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-4.png)
Let's pretend for a moment that you don't have SAS installed on all of your office computers. But you've got some great content locked away inside SAS data sets. Is there a way to get to the content of that data, without having to push the data through a SAS
![SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1: it's not dead yet](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
Are you up to date on your hotfixes for SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1? If you're not certain of the answer, you'll find out next week when you might see this message appear: This version of SAS Enterprise Guide will expire on December 1st, 2010. If you've applied any SAS Enterprise
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We've just pushed out the localized versions of the Getting Started with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 tutorial. This is the tutorial that you'll see when you select Help->Getting Started Tutorial from within SAS Enterprise Guide. Here is a list of the supported languages, and links to the tutorial content: English
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The question came up on the SAS Enterprise Guide discussion forum: which do you prefer, List Report Wizard (PROC REPORT) or Summary Tables (PROC TABULATE)? And as with most SAS-related questions, the proper response is: "it depends." If you put these two PROCs in the ring with a Google Fight,