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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Using SAS Enterprise Guide effectively](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Chris Hemedinger is not the only person who’s excited about the capabilities of SAS Enterprise Guide. Tom Miron, from Systems Seminar Consultants, a SAS author with more than 35 years of SAS experience, shared some great advice for using SAS Enterprise Guide.
![Simple rules to remember when working with indexes](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
There are five short, simple, quick rules to help you take advantage of indexes. An index lets you retrieve information from SAS data sets or tables. And according to Kirk Paul Lafler, if you keep these rules in mind, your information retrieval will be more efficient. Lafler is the Senior
![A CareerView Mirror](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Are you just starting out in your career? What if you think you’ve been around the block and there is nothing new you can do in your career? Everyone has their own perspective on what career planning is, but Bill Donovan from OckhamSource has a plan to help SAS users make a career
![Two MWSUG papers in review](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Every fall (fall in the US, that is), I try to attend as many SAS Users Groups events as humanly possible. This year, I’m starting with the MidWest SAS Users Groups conference in Minneapolis, then SouthEast SAS Users Group conference in Durham, NC (my home base) and finishing the season
![Search engine using SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
“It’s the age of the search engine! I remember people ‘Yahoo!’ing during the late 90's and ‘Google’ing till the late 2k's and now ‘Bing’ing. I just wondered, ‘Why not SAS?’” wrote Pramod. R on his blog SASopedia. This was the beginning of a quest and a MidWest SAS Users Groups
![SAS® macro tool to find source data sets used in programs](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
There are times when programmers need to know the source of the data sets used in a program. This macro, designed by Prasanna Murugesan and Sushant Thakare from Quintiles Inc., will help you extract the lib names from various programs and put them in an Excel file.