• DCSUG quarterly meeting, morning of THURSDAY, September 16. The program will comprise three presentations by Cynthia Zender of SAS Institute. All three relate to the Output Delivery System.
  • Getting Started with ODS
  • The ODS Graphics Facility
  • SAS^® Stored Processes & ODS Options
• Materials from past DCSUG programs, including June 2010 presentation by well-known SAS consultant and trainer Kirk Paul Lafler
  • DATA Step and PROC SQL Programming Techniques
  • Building Effective SAS^® Indexes using Short and Distinct Keys, Covered Queries and Clustered Indexes
  • Hard-to-find and Powerful PROC SQL^® Features
• DCSUG 2010 officer election results: Yesvy Gustasp and Beth Schreiber were re-elected as Chair and Secretary, respectively. Mira Shapiro is the new SAS Institute Liaison. No treasurer was elected, but Treasurer Emeritus Anastasiya Osborne has agreed to serve in an acting capacity.
• Yesvy Gustasp's SAS Enterprise Guide links

Where: Usually at Bureau of Labor Statistics, Postal Square Building (across from Union Station)

At these half-day meetings, members of the SAS user community present papers, exchange ideas, and generally find out what others are doing with SAS. The papers, given by members of our local group as well as experts from outside, stimulate discussion and provide instruction. Our meetings are free and open to the public.

2010 Meeting Dates

• Tuesday, March 2, 2010
• THURSDAY, June 10, 2010
• THURSDAY, September 16, 2010
• Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Definitive times and locations to be announced

Through the generous support of the SAS Institute, DCSUG members enjoy a speaker from SAS Institute at one meeting each year. DCSUG also participates in the Speaker Exchange Program of the NorthEast SAS Users Group (NESUG) and the SouthEast SAS Users Group (SESUG). These regional groups are able to bring us speakers from outside the DC area to speak on a variety of topics. In addition, speakers from our own area contribute their expertise, so DCSUG meetings always offer a stimulating mix of ideas.

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Currently available:

• This is the Modern World: Simple, Overlooked SAS^® Enhancements (Bruce Gilsen)
• SAS^® System Options Are Your Friends (Ed Heaton, 306k)
• The Redmond to Cary Express - A Comparison of Methods to Automate Data Transfer Between SAS & Microsoft Excel (Mike Mumma)
• I'll Have the TABULATEs a la ODS Please, With a Table of Contents On the Side (Ray Pass, 311k)
• PROC REPORT: Doin’ It in Style! (Ray Pass, 307k)
• PROC TABULATE: Doin’ It in Style! (Ray Pass, 207k)
• IN & OUT of CNTL with PROC FORMAT (Nancy K. Patton)
• Hidden Nuggets in Version 8: New Informats, Formats, and Functions (Mike Rhoads)
• Getting Started with Frame Technology (Chris Roper; 279k)
• A Health Care Claims Data Mart: Construction and Exploitation (Marge Scerbo and Stuart B. Levine; 415k)
• Getting Started with Dynamic Data Exchange (Howard Schreier; 133k)
• Graphs Without SAS/GRAPH (Howard Schreier; 207k)
• Using the FTP Access Method (Howard Schreier)
• How MERGE Really Works (Bob Virgile)
• The Dirty Dozen: Twelve Common Programming Mistakes (Bob Virgile)
• A SAS Programmer's View of the SAS Supervisor (Ian Whitlock)
• Experience Learned in Deploying htmSQL-based Application (Hsiwei Yu and Chap Gleason; 761k)

• Chair: Yesvy Gustasp
• Secretary: Beth Schreiber
• SAS Institute Liaison: Mira Shapiro
• Treasurer (Acting): Anastasiya Osborne

DCSUG also offers group memberships for $50 a year. An organization holding such a membership receives our newsletter and may freely distribute it to its SAS users, and can send as many SAS users as it wishes to our meetings. Like individual members, group members can place ads in our newsletter at the going rate.

For information on membership status contact Beth Schreiber.

While not a part of DCSUG, the Special Interest Group in Statististics for Capital PC Users Group is of interest to many DCSUG members.

Marie Byrd Alexander:

Larry Altmayer: 301-763-2569;

Karen Dennis: 301-390-8050;

Jason Ford: 202-691-6267

Frank Fry: 703-250-9272;

Roger Goodwin: 304-724-9976;

Sunil Gupta: 805-584-6182;

Yesvy Gustasp (Chair): 301-625-9576; 202-307-5888 (fax);

Heidi Markovitz: 305-803-8407;

Doug McAllaster: 703-588-1837;

Joe Mirabal: 703-265-4620;

Anastasiya Osborne (Acting Treasurer): 202-690-0446;

Dianne Rhodes: 202-659-3826;

Catherine Ann Loveless-Schmitt: 301-763-2997;

Beth Schreiber (Secretary): 202-622-4731;

Howard Schreier: 703-979-2720;

Mira Shapiro (SAS Institute Liaison):

Arlene Siller: 301-458-4498; 301-458-4032 (fax);

Susan Tian: 301-628-3285;

Christopher Zogby: 703-380-0973;

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