You’ve known it, you’ve loved it. Your copy’s pages are worn, torn, or coffee-stained, and yet it’s still as beloved as ever. It’s your Little SAS Book. It belongs on every SAS programmer’s bookshelf, and it’s now even better.

Susan Slaughter and Lora Delwiche have worked to help you improve your programming skills for over ten years now. We asked them how the fifth edition stacks up. Here’s what they had to say:

1) We have substantially updated the book for SAS 9.3. This release of SAS introduced several new default behaviors. So we rewrote the book to reflect these. One of the new defaults is that output is rendered as HTML instead of text. That meant that almost every section in the book needed to be updated to show the new output. And since text output still has its uses, we added a section on how to send output to the LISTING destination.

2) ODS Graphics has matured a lot since it was introduced with SAS 9.2. It has new default behaviors, and is now part of Base SAS. The last edition of our book had a few sections on the SG procedures, but these procedures have developed so much that we felt they now deserved their own chapter.

3) Even though we have added a lot to this edition, it is still a little book. In fact, this edition is shorter than the last edition—by one page!

Get your copy of this updated classic today. You can also preview a free chapter here.