https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Need-info-SAS-beginners/m-p/17073#M3216 SAS Books-by-users has a good selection. Suggest books by Cody for starters and Rick Aster for his programming secrets. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:08:48 GMT Doc_Duke 2009-11-17T02:08:48Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Need-info-SAS-beginners/m-p/17071#M3214 Hi,<BR /> <BR /> I am working on SAS for doing ETL operations.<BR /> <BR /> Please suggest a good book for strengthning my SAS basic programming skills.<BR /> <BR /> Also please provide me the pointers if i can get some online material with some practicals.<BR /> <BR /> Thanks Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:40:18 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Need-info-SAS-beginners/m-p/17071#M3214 deleted_user 2009-11-15T15:40:18Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Need-info-SAS-beginners/m-p/17072#M3215 Suggest you start out with searching the SAS support <A href="http://support.sas.com/" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/</A> website where there is much technical reference (samples, conference papers) as well as SAS-hosted documentation.<BR /> <BR /> Scott Barry<BR /> SBBWorks, Inc.<BR /> <BR /> SAS e-Learning starting web page:<BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/training/elearn/" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/training/elearn/</A> Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:13:57 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Need-info-SAS-beginners/m-p/17072#M3215 sbb 2009-11-15T16:13:57Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Need-info-SAS-beginners/m-p/17073#M3216 SAS Books-by-users has a good selection. Suggest books by Cody for starters and Rick Aster for his programming secrets. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:08:48 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/Need-info-SAS-beginners/m-p/17073#M3216 Doc_Duke 2009-11-17T02:08:48Z