There’s a lot of information out there in internetland; constantly being updated and added to. A lot of it is good, intelligent information, but it’s spread across many web sites. Visiting each of those web sites on a regular basis, checking for upda…
Category: SAS
My SAS Books: Shopping List 2012
Last year I threw away all my SAS books (to friends and colleagues in Beijing) before moving to US. You might agree that it’s not economically bound to transport such heavy books intercontinentally! Now I just start to build my SAS library one by one. I will most probably not buy more SAS books as […]
SAS Management Console: Client and Server Versions
We recently released an update to our Metacoda Security Plug-ins (V3.0 R2) with support for use with SAS® 9.3 M2. This of course required testing with a variety of SAS Metadata Server versions and different versions of SAS Management Console clien…
There and back again: copying files in SAS Enterprise Guide
One of the problems that trips up experienced SAS users when they begin to use SAS Enterprise Guide is a result of simple geography. The SAS Enterprise Guide application runs here, on your desktop. The SAS Workspace session (which accesses data and cranks through your analysis) runs over there, on […]
Fun SAS graphs for the holidays
While I’m waiting for the next “data intense” event to show up in the news (so I can blog some SAS graphs about it), I thought I’d share a few fun SAS graphs in the spirit of the holiday season! Please don’t hold me to too high of graphical “best prac…
Don’t let your macros crash and burn
Your macro just crashed and burned. So, what’s the problem? Let’s take a look: The text OR in the code above was misinterpreted as a logical operator. To correct this issue, use the %STR function to protect (disable the normal meaning of) speci…
End-To-End Debugging with Six Sigma DMAIC
I’ve mentioned my use of Six Sigma techniques for debugging a couple of times before (5 Whys and Ishikawa diagrams) but a mention of the Six Sigma approach to end-to-end problem resolution (and process improvement) is long-overdue.
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Migrating SAS Access Control Templates
I ran into a tricky issue today whilst migrating some Access Control Templates (ACTs) from an old SAS® 9.3 M1 deployment to a new SAS 9.3 M2 deployment. I’d seen it before and I initially forgot how I resolved it. It took a little while to r…