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The correct bibliographic citation for this manual is as follows: Fischer, Anja. 2019. SAS® Administration from the Ground Up: Running the SAS®9 Platform in a Metadata Server Environment. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc.
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About This Book
What Does This Book Cover?
This book is about the basic principles of SAS 9.4 platform administration. It is a starter guide for new SAS administrators, helping you to turn into a happy, calm and confident SAS admin. The book provides you with a light entrance into the world of SAS administration, without wading through the documentation. This book does not cover SAS Viya administration.
Is This Book for You?
If you are new to the SAS 9.4 admin job or are an advanced admin who wants to make sure you know all the admin basics and admin tricks, this book is for you.
What Should You Know about the Best Practices?
This book provides recommendations and best practices around the most important SAS 9.4 platform administration topics a SAS Platform administrator should be familiar with.
Additional Resources
Please find an appendix full of handy links and references on the author’s page at http://support.sas.com/fischer.
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Acknowledgments
So many people contributed to this – thank you all!
My wonderful fur-kids: Thank you for putting up with me and for not being mad at me for some non-taken-walks. I’m not upset anymore about y’all digging a Grand Canyon in our backyard while my head was in the book.
Lauree Shepard, my editor: Thank you for your great support and help throughout this book adventure and for patiently keeping up with my “it-has-to-be-fun-and-special-and-here-is-another-idea-and-please-more-color” moments.
Reviewers: Michelle and Paul Homes, David Stern, Juan Sanchez, Margaret Crevar, Mark Schneider, Scott McCauley. Thank you so much for all your great input. Special thanks to Michelle, Paul and David for sharing their awesome security knowledge with me.
Shelley Sessoms: Thank you so much for encouraging me to write this book and for supporting me.
My managers and director, T Winand, Rick McElroy and Christina Harris: Thank you for letting me write the book and for supporting me.
Beate: Your “whenever-we-talk-you-say-its-only-three-more-chapters” talks challenged me to write faster. We did it!
Twanda and Krystal: I appreciate your “butt kicks” in my “am-so-done” moments after all night writing! It was so worth it!
Kevin: We make the best admin team! There is no-one I’d rather fight the admin beast with, my dear admin pal!
Mom and Dad: Please don’t sell my book to all your friends in your “WE ARE SOOOOO PROUD” spirit. I doubt we
