A student preparing for the Base Certification exam recently sent us a question, but it wasn’t about the exam. It was about how to position her certification credential on her resume to highlight she’s SAS Certified. This is a great question since employers continuously tell us a SAS Certification is […]
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A SAS Note for Length Limit of Strings in CDISC Datasets
Clinical programmers are very familiar with the length limit of strings in CDISC compliant datasets, such as #1: variable names: <= 8 characters #2: variable labels: <= 40 characters #3: data set labels: <= 40 characters #4: data value of a single variable: <= 200 characters and they are due to the limitations of SAS […]
NOWINDOWS Goes Out the Window
I just discovered by accident a new “feature” in SAS 9.4, one that apparently wasn’t glamorous enough to be mentioned back at SAS Global Forum last spring. Starting with SAS 9.4, by default, PROC REPORT runs in noninteractive mode. In other words, you no longer have to specify the NOWINDOW option in order to avoid […]
SAS Add-In for MS Office: Abe Lincoln Sends Glee in a Snowstorm
It’s been really snowy and cold in North Carolina for the past week. About 5″ of snow fell in 2 hours, which unleashed pandemonium. Power was out for some, flights were cancelled because the airport shutdown, and many people even left their cars beside the road electing to walk home or stay in a hotel for the night. Since I work from home, it was …
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Should teachers get a pay raise?
Teacher pay, and the possibility of a raise, has been a hot topic in North Carolina lately. So I decided to look around and see if I could find any good data related to teacher salary, and then try to determine the best way to present that data graphically. I found that […]
SAS Talks: Favorite SAS Enterprise Guide Tricks
Last week’s SAS Talks session, My Favorite SAS Enterprise Guide 5.1 Tricks, was remarkable in several ways. First, the featured presenter was Marje Fecht, who also serves as the conference chair for SAS Global Forum 2014. She’s an avid SAS professional who loves to educate her fellow SAS users on […]
SAS is in the air
Today is Valentine’s Day, and for many people it will be a day to celebrate with their significant other. Whether it’s expressed by a nice dinner out, a bouquet of roses, or a big box of chocolates, there’s no doubt that love will be in the air. It rem…
Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Express to debug custom tasks
It’s true: you can use the Microsoft Visual Studio Express tools to build custom tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide and the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. And I said as much in my book, Custom Tasks for SAS Enterprise Guide Using Microsoft .NET. I even provided step-by-step instructions for how […]