Category: SAS

Variable Names into Macro Variables

by Proc • October 21, 2011 • Comments Off

Late last month, I posted an answer to a question on StackOverflow. This morning, I had to use something similar at work and it reminded me that ability to pull variable names out of a data set is a handy trick. For the example, I’m using the yr1001 data set from sashelp to avoid sending […]

Your input is important

by Aubrey Barfield • October 21, 2011 • Comments Off

I’m Eric Rossland, the Curriculum Manager for SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Training. We have recently updated our courses to reflect the 4.3 releases of the different BI client applications. We would like your help in determining when we shou…

Poetry on our own terms

by Chris hemedinger • October 21, 2011 • Comments Off

Within the SAS documentation there must be thousands of unique words. But eleven words occur more than any others within the SAS documentation corpus: SAS, data, statement, option, value, set, variable, value, PROC, model, table. This is according to one of our staff terminologists, Vicki Leary, who helps to keep our use of these words consistent and clear. Vicki challenged our […]

Become super-efficient at starting & stopping services via scripting

by Angela Hall • October 21, 2011 • Comments Off

Which would you rather do? Click stop (or start) over and over, while waiting in between the services to make sure everything is up and running … OR … click one button and go have lunch? Honestly I prefer the lunch option. (And for administrators, …

Off to Bitbucket

by Proc • October 21, 2011 • Comments Off

With Bitbucket now offering git support, it made sense to transfer over my repositories from github. I have a lot of code (macro’s and examples) that I reference currently stored dumped onto a single page google site. I haven’t scrubbed out any proprietary information / work references so those snippets have to remain private for […]