If you’re a SAS platform administrator and you subscribe to the SAS® Tech Report you probably noticed the following snippet in the November 2012 issue: And take a look at the new series for SAS administrators on the SAS Users Groups blog. Christ…
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Macro Quoting in SAS Data Integration Studio
You can run the following piece of codes successfully in these 3 SAS programming environments: BASE SAS Enterprise Guide: create a new “File-New-Program” SAS Data Integration Studio: create a new “Tool-Code Editor” %let species="Setosa" "Versicolor"; data a; set sashelp.iris; where species in (&species); run; Then create a Transformation in SAS Data Integration Studio […]
The Little SAS Book Fifth Edition
Five editions is a lot! If you had told me, back when we wrote the first edition, that some day we would write a fifth; I would have wondered how we could possibly find that much to say. After all…it is supposed to be The Little SAS Book, isn’t it? But those clever folk at […]
Roadside Wisdom
I’m not normally a fan of graffiti. But I have been quite taken with one particular instance of graffiti that appeared in my neighborhood a few months ago. Here it is: I don’t know who wrote this, but I like their way of taking something ordinary and injecting it simultaneously with humor and profundity. For […]
Talking Turkey with SAS Graphs
Have you heard the expression “Talk Turkey”? Well then, what better (tongue-in-cheek) thing to do around the Thanksgiving holiday, than talk some turkey using SAS Graphs! 😉 I don’t usually decorate my graphs with images and pictures (they typically ma…
NOTE: Clean Your Cubes
It’s not spring-time, but it’s still worth giving a thought to the cleanliness of your environment, for the benefit of reducing complexity and of reducing space usage. Angela Hall posted a great article about Cleaner OLAP Cube Physical Folder Structu…
Coding For All – Competition for the Family
There’s a debate in the UK, and many other countries around the globe, regarding the content of the IT curriculum (or, ICT as it’s known in the UK). Speaking from experience, my kids have been taught how to use Microsoft Office products, but they hav…
NESUG 25 In Review
I had a great time at NESUG 25! Great networking opportunities, excellent papers/presentations, and a tremendous amount of support from SAS itself. Papers As always, there were a number of terrific papers. The full proceedings are now posted. I w…