When programming in SAS, there is almost always more than one way to accomplish a task. Beginning programmers may think that there is no difference between using the WHERE statement and the IF statement to subset your data set. Knowledgeable programm…
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When do I use a WHERE statement instead of an IF statement to subset a data set?
When programming in SAS, there is almost always more than one way to accomplish a task. Beginning programmers may think that there is no difference between using the WHERE statement and the IF statement to subset your data set. Knowledgeable programm…
When do I use a WHERE statement instead of an IF statement to subset a data set?
When programming in SAS, there is almost always more than one way to accomplish a task. Beginning programmers may think that there is no difference between using the WHERE statement and the IF statement to subset your data set. Knowledgeable programm…
Tracing calling programs for %INCLUDE
Dear Miss SAS Answers, I run a lot of programs that call other programs with %include. I was wondering if there was a way, perhaps through a SAS Automatic Macro variable, to determine 1) whether a program was called or “included” from another program? …
Get organized at least in the metadata
New in 9.2, SAS Folders are used to organize the metadata around various content and BI objects. I wrote about this many moons ago but the subject still comes up as more customers get started with the Business Intelligence architecture. As you can se…
All Systems Go with SAS 9.3
Over the past few weeks I must have done about half a dozen SAS® 9.3 installations and deployments (mainly Linux 64-bit server and Windows 7 32-bit client). Not because of any problems really, just trying out a variety of options. My experiences have been very good. I must say the SAS installation and migration process […]
I’m going to count for something in Australia
I’m currently enjoying the Australian “winter” as I travel around the region talking to SAS customers for the SAS Insight Series. It just so happens that I was in Perth, Western Australia for Australia’s Census Night. Because I was in the country …
Advantages abound by centralizing all of those logs
In order to support a SAS Server Architecture, administrators must know where all the log files from the various SAS Business Intelligence services are located. By default, each service that generates a log will create it within the services’ own confi…