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SAS Certification Prep Guide; 4th Edition obtaining the sampledata.txt file

ELH63 — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:18:39 GMT

I purchased the SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th edition. Chapter 1 suggest accessing the SAMPLEDATA.TXT file (page 2) at:

http://support.sas.com/publishing/cert/sampledata.txt

All I get is either FILE NOT FOUND or I am sent to another SAS site.

How can I access this sample data?

Re: SAS Certification Prep Guide; 4th Edition obtaining the sampledata.txt file

PeterClemmensen — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:37:33 GMT

The correct link is here

https://support.sas.com/content/dam/SAS/support/en/books/data/sampledata.txt

Re: SAS Certification Prep Guide; 4th Edition obtaining the sampledata.txt file

Reeza — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:06:25 GMT

You should also find the pages with the errors/mistakes in the book.

@ELH63 wrote:

I purchased the SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th edition. Chapter 1 suggest accessing the SAMPLEDATA.TXT file (page 2) at:

http://support.sas.com/publishing/cert/sampledata.txt

All I get is either FILE NOT FOUND or I am sent to another SAS site.

How can I access this sample data?

Re: SAS Certification Prep Guide; 4th Edition obtaining the sampledata.txt file

ELH63 — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:14:55 GMT

Thank you. The 4th edition needs to be updated.

Re: SAS Certification Prep Guide; 4th Edition obtaining the sampledata.txt file

ChocoCheeks — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:59:59 GMT

I am working from the sas prep guide book for 9.4 with SAS university. Ran the sample.txt code from this link and logged 107 errors, 2 warnings - does this link contain the correct data? Just a bit confused.

I am working with SAS Unisivity running in VirtualBox on a Mac if that makes any difference.

Cheers

Re: SAS Certification Prep Guide; 4th Edition obtaining the sampledata.txt file

Reeza — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:15:53 GMT

SASUSER on SAS UE is locked down so you do need a different library. I thought there were separate instructions for SAS UE for the book somewhere, but you may need to search around for it.

@ChocoCheeks wrote:

Hi

I am working from the sas prep guide book for 9.4 with SAS university. Ran the sample.txt code from this link and logged 107 errors, 2 warnings - does this link contain the correct data? Just a bit confused.

I am working with SAS Unisivity running in VirtualBox on a Mac if that makes any difference.

Cheers

Re: SAS Certification Prep Guide; 4th Edition obtaining the sampledata.txt file

ChocoCheeks — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:23:14 GMT

ok thank you, thats good to know. I will have a look around and see if I can working it out... so generally there should not be any errors when running the sample data.txt file for the first time, thats good to know.

Cheers