Category: SAS

SAS 9.3 – Planned for release in Q3 2011

SAS Global Forum 2011 in Vegas seems to be all about SAS 9.3. Interesting for me as a number of customers in New Zealand are still on SAS 9.1 and yet to upgrade to SAS 9.2. The other thing that is interesting is that while SAS are talking about new SMC 9.3 capability (and in fact a […]

NOTE: Get a Clearer View of Your Security Metadata

The partners booths at SAS Global Forum rarely offer third-party SAS software products. The one perrenial exception is Futrix (offering self-service BI beyond SAS’s own capabilities), but this year sees an offering from Metacoda. It’s the Metacoda…

NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2011 – Update

There’s a lot for the 3,000+ attendees of SAS Global Forum 2011 here in Las Vegas to see and do. The opening session and this morning’s Technology Connection session offered plenty of snippets of information. I’m now attending papers and cruising the d…

Example 8.33: Merging data sets one-to-many

It’s often necessary to combine data from two data sets for further analysis. Such merging can be one-to-one, many-to-one, and many-to-many. The most common form is the one-to-one match, which we cover in section 1.5.7. Today we look at a one-to-man…

SAS Global forum 2011 Videos

Hello!For all of those who are unable to attend the SAS Global forum 2011, here is the way to catch up from your workplace/home:http://www.sas.com/apps/webnet/video-sharing.html?c=072802BD-8501-47AF-A5D8-365B978A2517&height=520&width=…

Don’t hold your applause to the end

Yesterday I was in the Big Room for the rehearsal of the Technology Connection, the part of SAS Global Forum where SAS shows off its wares: what’s been released recently and what’s coming. I believe that customers are going to love what they see….

What happens in Las Vegas…

…will come home with you. This week, as many of you know, SAS Global Forum is taking place in Las Vegas. Many of our SAS Training Instructors are there teaching classes, presenting papers, hosting workshops and answering your questions in the …