That’s what happens when you take a break! I’ve not posted in here for a couple of months; my first post after my break (NOTE: When WORK is not WORK) looks a little sloppy. Damn!
The information was technically correct, but I’ve had a couple of polite…
I’m working on a SAS programming project with a large team. Each team member is responsible for a piece of the overall system, and the “contract” for how it all fits together is The Data. For example, I’ve got a piece that performs some data manipulation and produces several output […]
One of my students emailed me, asking how to easily reset SAS system options. He was looking for a one-liner solution, just like you get with graphic options: GOPTIONS RESET; While there isn’t a RESET keyword for the OPTIONS statement, you can save you…
It was my pleasure to sit down and talk with Education Director Eric Rossland to get the inside scoop on our fast track courses. This is an intense training format that is offered in the Business Intelligence, Data Management and Administration curri…
Last week I received a tweet from Kerri Rivers (@kerri_rivers) reminding me to vote in the SASware Ballot. I met Kerri at SAS Global Forum this past year. She is a consultant for SAS with a wicked good sense of humor. Yes – my kind of person! Anyway she had a good suggestion. What is the SASWare Ballot? You can visit the SASWare Ballot website to check all the suggestions that other customers have made. If you see one a suggestion you like – vote for it! See one you do not understand – ask a question. See one that you think could be even better – make a comment. You will have to be logged in – don’t worry it’s free! Review the Suggestions There are plenty of good suggestions based on the products (SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS BI Dashboard, and so on ). For instance, here is a suggestion for the Information Delivery Portal. The user suggests that a portlet that allows you to enter HTML code directly and immediately below it someone commented that the feature was available in a earlier release. I like this idea – however you can use a stored process to deliver to HTML […]
This week is going to feel strange. “London 2012” will revert to simply being a reference to London in the year 2012 BC. Since the 2012 Olympics were awarded to London on 6th July 2005, the phrase “London 2012” has held special meaning and anticipati…
The art of listening is one of the most valuable skills for a leader. Whether you’re a team leader, technical lead, or simply more experienced than some of your colleagues, you’ll gain a great deal by doing an appropriate proportion of listening relati…
When you code a one-level data set name, i.e. a data set name with no libname specified, you probably expect it to be read or written from/to the WORK library, but that might not be so. Read on…
Subject to the value of the USER= option, one-level da…