Category: SAS

Adding Negative Solve Orders to OLAP Calculated Members

OLAP Calculated Members need to be tested to ensure that the numbers are correct in various tools. What we recently found was that the member tested properly in the OLAP Studio View Cube but then in Web Report Studio, the measure wasn’t correct. Essent…

Adding Negative Solve Orders to OLAP Calculated Members

OLAP Calculated Members need to be tested to ensure that the numbers are correct in various tools. What we recently found was that the member tested properly in the OLAP Studio View Cube but then in Web Report Studio, the measure wasn’t correct. Essent…

Effectiveness of two mail list groups: SAS-L and R-help

Software’s strength depends on the cohesion of the community backing it. Though a commercial package comes with technique support guarantee, the speed and efficiency of telephone wired customer service may not suit the fast-evolving programming need….

Enterprise Guide 4.3, Making it work with SAS Internal Userid’s

Had an interesting experience with the new SAS 9.2 environment at a customer site. We have got SAS 9.2 (actually SAS Grid but thats irrelevant for this post) installed on RedHat 5 Linux.  As we are using Linux and not Windows we lose the standard integration with Active Directory.  We didn’t want to implement PAM integration with AD (mainly because nobody can articulate clearly all […]

Q&A Resources for SAS® Software

In addition to SAS Technical Support, there are a number of community support resources available for SAS users too. I have compiled a list below of the sites I know of that use a Q&A or discussion format where SAS users and platform administrators can post questions and review or provide answers. SAS Discussion Forums: […]

Consolidating various resources

There are a lot of resources out there for SAS BI/EBI users and it spans a wide range of locations. The more we research the more we agree that having a single book for the BI client tools will help new users getting started with the system.
Here is a…

PowerPoint: A Cautionary Tale

With SGF 2011 fast approaching, I’m sure I’m not the only speaker  hard at work preparing my PowerPoint presentations.  I can remember the old days when speakers brought actual slide trays full of film slides.  I don’t miss the expense of those slides or the amount of room they took in my suitcase, and it […]