2.1 Sources of Data

Before you can analyze your data, before you can run a report, before you can do anything with your data, SAS Enterprise Guide must be able to read your data. Your data might be in a data warehouse on a mainframe, or on a piece of paper sitting on your desk. Whatever form your data take, there is a way to get your data into SAS Enterprise Guide.

New SAS data tables If you have a small amount of data, or if you've collected the data yourself, then you may find the easiest way to get your data into SAS Enterprise Guide is to type them directly into a Data Grid. To do this, just open an empty Data Grid like the one below, set the properties for the columns, and enter your data. SAS Enterprise Guide makes a SAS data table (also called a SAS data set) from the data you type into a Data Grid. Sections 2.4 to 2.6 describe Data Grids in more detail.