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Do you need to make SQL Server data available for a SAS
Analytics package? Do you also need to accept some data back
from a SAS package and also process the returned values? How can
a SQL Server professional with limited or no SAS experience
accomplish these goals?   SAS is a popular tool in such areas as
healthcare and retail analytics. Therefore, if data you manage
as a SQL Server professional has analytical applications in
these or other areas, you may very well find yourself preparing
data for SAS analytics professionals or even running SQL Server
data through a SAS analytics package without support from SAS
professionals. Since SQL Server and SAS are from different
software vendors, newcomers to the