A few of the things that my mother drilled into me as a kid really did stick. One of them is that everything has a place and when you put an item in the appropriate place, you can always find it. Today, I received a few messages about job postings […]
Category: SAS
NOTE: Length Functions (Something Missing?)
How many functions to tell you the length of a value do you need? At least six apparently! SAS provides LENGTH, LENGTHC, LENGTHM, LENGTHN, KLENGTH and %LENGTH. Why?…
As we’ve all discovered to our cost, the basic LENGTH function accurately…
Mirror Mirror on the wall, where am I running?
We have been doing some trouble shooting with the new Grid environment, and one of the guys on the customers site found this great piece fo SAS code: %put _all_; Run it in EG and the log will tell you a whole heap about what and where you are running your code on! Example results […]
A scorecard for default risk with sparkline
In the 1st chapter of their must-read credit risk modeling book, Gunter and Peter used the ratios of working capital(WC), retained earnings(RE), earnings before interest and taxes(EBIT), sales(S) and market value of equity(ME) over either total liab…
SGF 2011 Redux
It may just be me, but every time I attend SAS Global Forum, I always leave feeling that I have missed a large part of the conference. There are too many things going on at once and in too many different places for me to catch it all. Fortunately, for those of us who have […]
SAS 9.3, whats a bet its early!
Been flat out for the last few weeks on various SAS Projects, and not many on the SaasInct side unfortunately. One of the projects is getting prepared for a major upgrade to SAS 9.2 from SAS 9.1. Looks like the SAS 9.2 install will be going ahead June or July, and then into migration. Whats a bet […]
The business layer – a key to a successful BI system
Every BI architecture needs a business layer of some kind. I think the business layer actually is the key to a successful BI system because it enables the business users to query and analyse the valuable data using their own terminology rather than the…
The business layer – a key to a successful BI system
Every BI architecture needs a business layer of some kind. I think the business layer actually is the key to a successful BI system because it enables the business users to query and analyse the valuable data using their own terminology rather than the…