This picture (by newsobserver.com) took from Wake County Library Book Fair in North Carolina Fairground where I also went to pick up some books. I was and still is a big book (almost paper books) fan. But when I was standing among the 450,000 used books in the book fair, I felt depressed and reluctantly […]
Category: SAS
SAS Management Console over SSH
I was asked recently how to get SAS® Management Console to remotely access a SAS metadata server using SSH tunnels. In the absence of a VPN connection to your network, SSH can be an alternative for SAS Management Console access to a remote SAS met…
Conference/Smartphone
Just a quick two-part question:Do you plan on attending a SAS conference this year (local, regional, global, any)?Do you use a smartphone?
SAS Enterprise Guide: Identifying Errors in the Log
In an earlier post, I provided a check log program that you could use with your batch jobs. There was some really interesting discussions in the Comments about using SAS Enterprise Guide with the log. Here’s some tips I have for working with the SAS Enterprise Guide logs – everything from some quick tips to changing the style. Cruising the SAS EG Log When you run a program in SAS EG, if there are issues then a red x appears on the Program icon (1) and the Log pane (2) becomes the focus, as shown in the following figure. When you log has error or warning messages, you can use the arrows (3) to move to the next or return to the last – this is convenient especially when the log stretches from here to Saturn’s inner most rings. As you click the arrow – each error or warning message becomes the focus. Adding Some Swagger to Your Log Does your log lack umph? Lacking style? Got no swagger? Why not dress up the messages so they are identified a little easier? From the Tools > Options window do the following: Select SAS Programs from the list. The panel changes to the […]
Are 64-bit client applications twice as good as 32-bit applications?
In September 2010, I questioned whether you should care about native 64-bit client applications (or the lack thereof). At the time, SAS did not have a 64-bit version of SAS Enterprise Guide or SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. A skeptical reader might assume that I was just trying to make […]
Stamping the SAS Log with all Macro Variable Values
The topic of the day around the office was stamping all of the user created macro variables into the log function. I’ve got a few programs that have a lot (20+) auto-generated dates, etc and the following is just one of the the many ways to print what each macro resolves to into your log […]
Example 9.25: It’s been a mighty warm winter? (Plot on a circular axis)
People here in the northeast US consider this to have been an unusually warm winter. Was it?The University of Dayton and the US Environmental Protection Agency maintain an archive of daily average temperatures that’s reasonably current. In the case o…
NOTE: Explaining Precision
When teaching the SAS PRG3: Advanced Techniques and Efficiencies course, I always start section 2.2 Controlling Data Set Size with a slight amount of trepidation. My minor apprehension is due to the knowledge that the section includes a discussion on…