Category: SAS

Suppress Engine/Host Section in Proc Contents

ODS EXCLUDE EngineHost ;

SAS default behavior is for this statement to be in effect only until the next procedure it encounters. To tell SAS to continuously exclude these two objects from the output, add the PERSIST option as follows:

ODS EXCLUDE ATT…

Splinters on my backside from sitting on the fence

Was the SAS Insight Series in New Zealand and Australia a prelude to the Rugby World Cup?  Perhaps it was, even you cannot find it on the list of official events.   But consider these coincidences: Like the Rugby World Cup, my trip was also sponsored…

SAS Deployment Manager 9.3

I noticed the user interface for the SAS® Deployment Manager 9.3 has changed slightly. Here is a screenshot from my “old” SAS 9.2 M3 installation: … and here’s the screenshot from my new SAS 9.3 installation: I’m guessing that the new hierarchical folder structure is going to allow for more tools to added. Interestingly there’s […]

Metadata source code storage in 9.3 stored processes

There is some sweet new functionality in 9.3 stored processes. One of them I particularly like is the additional option to store the SAS code within the metadata rather than in a separate .sas file. This is extremely beneficial when allowing the sto…

My 10 wishes for SAS

No wonder that SAS 9.3 is one of SAS’s greatest products. Beyond it, I have 10 secret wishes and hope the far-away SAS 9.3.2 or SAS 9.4 might realize them someday.

1. Trigger for SAS dataset
A wonderful thing about SAS is that it can be used as a…

My 10 wishes for SAS

No wonder that SAS 9.3 is one of SAS’s greatest products. Beyond it, I have 10 secret wishes and hope the far-away SAS 9.3.2 or SAS 9.4 might realize them someday.

1. Trigger for SAS dataset
A wonderful thing about SAS is that it can be used as a…

My 10 wishes for SAS

No wonder that SAS 9.3 is one of SAS’s greatest products. Beyond it, I have 10 secret wishes and hope the far-away SAS 9.3.2 or SAS 9.4 might realize them someday.

1. Trigger for SAS dataset
A wonderful thing about SAS is that it can be used as a…

It’s that time of year…

Oh fall,  the time of year when my work hours shift based to avoid morning gridlock that due to the elementary school drop off.  This year is a bit different as I’m not one of the teachers anxiously awaiting a new crop of kids on the first day of school.  That chapter is behind me […]