So you want to install the SAS Intelligence Platform on a server, but you just don’t have the time to read the documentation about how to perform the install. Or, maybe, you just do not feel comfortable jumping into the install on your own. Let me …
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NOTE: An Update on Graphics Procedures
When Phil Holland asked me (and others) to review his upcoming new book Power User’s Guide to SAS Graph Templates, I gladly accepted: Phil is a long-standing friend of mine, I’ve always enjoyed programming with SAS/GRAPH procedures, and I haven’t used …
NOTE: Macro Arrays, Straight From a Data Set
I love the SAS macro language, and I do a lot of work in it. It’s not uncommon to want to have an array of macro variables with values taken from a data set. Here’s how I most-often do it…
Of course, macro language doesn’t explicitly support array…
Turn your data set into a DATA step program
Sometimes I need to “disassemble” a SAS data set into a DATA step program. It’s kind of like creating a “freeze-dried” version of the data that you can carry around and use anywhere, re-hydrating it in the SAS session where you next need it. Some example uses for this: Build […]
Maintaining prompt selections in multiple Web Report Sections (v4.3)
SAS Technical Support has a wonderful how-to guide for using one set of prompt values across multiple sections of a Web Report Studio report. This works great in 4.2, however there is one additional item that I discovered in a 4.3/9.3 install. With the…
SAS Administration: Change the Options to Get More Performance
Every time I install SAS products or solutions I find myself using the same options in the SAS configuration file to set memory usage, CPU usage, and the SAS WORK library location. Obviously each installation has different thresholds configured but the options remain the same. In some situations not having the …
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Wordnik, and Words Revisited
I came across a new web site today that piqued my interest in words and language. It’s called Wordnik. It’s like a dictionary (seemingly American definitions only), but it offers a lot more because it shows various uses of the word found around the i…
NOTE: I’ll be Busy at SAS Global Forum! #sasgf13
I was very pleased to be invited to present a paper at this year’s SAS Global Forum in San Francisco in April/May. To then have my contributed paper accepted too was icing on the cake. I don’t yet know the dates and times where my two papers will be …