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Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![SAS author's tip: Converting SAS/ACCESS view descriptors to SQL views](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2012/08/Holland_bookdark2.jpg)
This week's SAS tip is from master user Phil Holland and his popular book Saving Time and Money Using SAS. If you're not yet familiar with Phil and his extensive work in the user community, start out by visiting his author page. If you're on LinkedIn, look for him on SAS Professional Forum
![Do you use SAS for analytics and Excel for graphs?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2012/08/pie3-702x336.png)
Do you use SAS for analytics and Microsoft Excel for graphs? Why not use SAS for your graphs too?!? Then you could completely automate the entire process in one SAS program, with no manual steps! A lot of people use Excel to create their graphs because "it's what they know." What if somebody
![Testing recommendations for SAS BI Dashboard & SAS Web Report Studio](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
With limited time and budget, you can still thoroughly test SAS reports built in SAS BI Dashboard and SAS Web Report Studio by considering how all the tools were used to build the end report. An understanding of the functionality within each part of the chain from raw data to
![Graphs of Olympic proportions!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2016/11/olympic.png)
Everyone in the world has their attention turned towards the Olympics this week, so what better topic to tie in to a SAS/GRAPH blog than that?!?! I had seen a graph on the guardian website that I thought was interesting, so I decided to try to create my own (slightly different)
![SAS author's tip: Examples using combined power definitions](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2012/08/Westfall_bookimage.jpg)
This week's SAS tip comes from Peter Westfall, Randall Tobias, and Russell Wolfinger and their book Multiple Comparisons and Multiple Tests Using SAS, Second Edition. If you're interested in this topic, additional bonus content includes a free chapter from the book. The following excerpt is from SAS Press authors Peter Westfall, Randall Tobias,
![4 ways to cure yourself after writing a book](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2012/08/Gerhard_BookBurning-23.jpg)
Writing a book (especially for SAS Press) is an incredible experience. If you are playing with the thought of doing so, I highly recommend that you proceed with this idea. You’ll get a much better structured view of your favorite topic, learn a lot about yourself, and enter a very