Hi SAS EG is a CLIENT. SAS EG gives you a powerfull interface to write SAS code or to use wizards which in the background write SAS code for you. BUT: You need a SAS Server to actually execute your code. All the paths and the data must be accessible from your SAS Server and all the paths must be written in the way as they are seen from your SAS Server (where SAS executes). So c:\... is not the c-drive on your local machine but the c-drive of your server. You can have several servers defined in EG. If you want to execute stuff on your personal machine you would need to see a server "local". If there is one then it means the full SAS is also installed on your local machine (so the Server component) and you can run stuff directly on your machine. Else you need to connect to a remote Server. EG has an import wizard which allows you to import data from your local environment (you find that under Files/import). What happens there: EG (the client) uses some .net components to convert your data and combine it with some SAS code. This data/code bundle is then sent to the Server where the code is executed and reads the accompanying data - and the result is a SAS table (on the Server - but you can look at it using the EG client). Hope that gave you some more clarity as a start.
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