SAS Author Derek Morgan is a programming rock star… in more ways than one. Not only has he been a professional SAS programmer in the pharmaceutical industry for almost 30 years and written two editions of The Essential Guide to SAS® Dates and Times, Derek also plays electric bass in […]
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They say age is a relative thing. With this graph, you can tell how old (or young) you are, relative to everyone else. (I’ll let you decide whether this is a good thing, or a bad thing, hahaha!) Nathan Yau recently posted a graph on flowingdata.com that allows you to […]
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Let’s go back to 1976 for a moment. Did you know that was the year Muhammad Ali introduced a line of beauty products called “Knock Out?” And the hottest merchandise, including t-shirts, posters and even beanbags sported the character Arthur Fonzarelli (The Fonz) of TV’s “Happy Days.” But there was something […]
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With the recent vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union being all over the news, I was a bit embarrassed to realize I didn’t know exactly what areas are (and aren’t) considered part of the UK. After a few Google searches, I found the following map on the […]
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Would you like to see the latest features of SAS Enterprise Guide in action? Of course you would! That’s why it’s well worth the 12 minutes of your time to watch this video from SAS Global Forum 2016. In the video, Casey Smith (SAS’ R&D manager of the SAS Enterprise […]
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One thing that we have a lot of at SAS: installations of SAS software that we can run. I have SAS for Windows on my laptop, and I have access to many centralized instances of SAS that run on Linux and Windows servers. (I also have access to mainframe SAS, […]
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SAS can give the error The SAS System stopped processing this step because of insufficient memory when querying a single, wide row from a remote SQL Server. The following code fully demonstrates the problem and shows a workaround. Also, I eliminate the explanation that SAS data sets in general do not support rows this wide.
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Let’s create a souped-up SAS map that can track Zika-carrying mosquitoes down to the county level, in the US! A few months ago, I wrote a blog post with a world map of documented locations of the Aedes mosquitoes that could carry the Zika virus. The world map showed a high concentration […]
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