To program effectively using SAS software, you need to understand basic concepts about SAS programs and the SAS files that they process in various ways. In particular, you need to be familiar with SAS data sets, which are data that is logically arranged in a form accessible to SAS software.

In this lesson, you'll examine a simple SAS program and see how it works. You'll learn details about the SAS data sets that it processes and find out about other types of SAS files. Finally, you'll see how SAS files are stored temporarily or permanently in SAS libraries.

This lesson contains 54 pages and takes approximately 60-90 minutes to complete.