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DoW-Loop: A Quick Note from SESUG 2012
Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious Volume of SAS-L galore, While I coded, nearly snapping, Suddenly there came a tapping As of someone gently wrapping Code around my mental core. “’Tis’ Do-Whitlock Loop”, I muttered, “Wrapped […]
Creating a somewhat unique ID using the UUIDGEN function
According to the Daily Writing Tips blog, describing a thing as “somewhat unique” is bad form. Unique means “one of a kind”, so either it is or it is not. The famous example (which the style police will use to chide you) is that you can’t have something as “somewhat […]
Running SAS on Ubuntu Linux: Dash to Bash
It happened to me again today … the Ubuntu dash-bash-default-shell-thing: userid@hostname:~$ /opt/sas92/SASFoundation/9.2/sas /bin/sh: 0: Illegal option -p userid@hostname:~$ /opt/sas93/SASFoundation/9.3/sas /bin/sh: 0: Illegal option -p I encoun…
Interacting on the Catwalk – Modeling Takes Centre Stage at the Toronto Data Mining Forum
This morning the Toronto Data Mining Forum convened at the SAS Canada offices for our semi-annual meeting. I’ve come to really look forward to these get-togethers for a few reasons. First, the agendas have become more and more compellin…
Be Your Own SAS Admin: Create Customized SAS Sessions
You may find such SAS desktop shortcuts useful: click icon A then you get a SAS session titled “Project A” (you may notice your SAS session with title “SAS” by default). In this session, the current working folder is just where you put Project A (the default may be like C:\users\yourID). Also, some autoexec codes […]
In case you missed it – Analytics 2012 at your fingertips
All of us here at SAS are finally recovering from Analytics 2012 in Las Vegas. Just like the atmosphere in Vegas, there was so much stimulation happening in the two-day event that it was hard to take it all in. That’s why we decided to give you a sam…
BI Dashboard: Flex Theme Designer Makes it Personal
The first thing many customers want to do is make their SAS BI Dashboard to look more like “them”. They want their organizational branding (their logo, colors, and corporate identity). If that task has fallen on your, here’s some gu…