Category: SAS

Create a fully summarized table for OLAP Cubes

SAS procedure SUMMARY is a quick method of converting your detail table to a fully summarized one.
Included is a sample. The key option to set is the NWAY – this generates the lowest level of summary for use in the OLAP cube.

Essentially – the class s…

Create a fully summarized table for OLAP Cubes

SAS procedure SUMMARY is a quick method of converting your detail table to a fully summarized one. Included is a sample. The key option to set is the NWAY – this generates the lowest level of summary for use in the OLAP cube. Essentially – the class st…

Using SAS as my makeshift alarm: Using sound function

I have trouble waking up early everyday. And the days when i forget to set alarm in my mobile, I might wake up two days later!!I’ve overcome this problem after i discovered this the sound function in SAS. This function produces a beep sound for the spe…

Sail for Las Vegas!

look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.

The SAS Global Forum 2011 (Apr 4-7, Las Vegas) papers are now available on line:
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings11/TOC.html
There […]

Array 2.0: matrix-friendly array in Proc Fcmp

Array is probably the only number-indexed data type in SAS. SAS programmers adopt it mainly for multiple-variable batch-processing. For example, longitudinal summation can be achieved by specifying a one-dimensional array and then adding all array elem…

Star Schema Options in OLAP Cubes

In the past couple months, this scenario has occurred twice. So thought I’d share a quick remedy ~ and save for my future reference when this occurs again :).
In Star Schemas, there are sometimes occasions where the data quality isn’t exactly perfec…