Contributed by Bill Nasuti, Global Professional Services, SAS
We often hear folks refer to SAS Grid as if it were a single entity, when in reality it consists of many facets. SAS Grid provides a rich functional toolset to improve performance and r…
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ISO 8601 Date Time Format
ISO 8601What’s new is BASE SAS 9.2
Creating a Relational OLAP Cube (ROLAP)
SAS allows for three different cube storage mechanisms:
1. MOLAP
The traditional SAS OLAP Cube will all aggregations / nway stored on a physical file structure accessible by the SAS OLAP Cube Server.
2. ROLAP
A relational OLAP cube – where no aggregati…
Does Crime Pay?
Answer: It certainly doesn’t pay authors. My sister recently told me that the Sacramento public library lists one copy of The Little SAS Book in their catalog. However, it turns out that someone has stolen that one copy. I figure that’s a compliment of sorts: Someone wanted The Little SAS Book enough to steal it. […]
Short on time, but need to learn?
Those of you who have anxiously been awaiting the next installments in my “What is there to do in Cary?” series may have noticed a distinct lack of output over the last month or so. This is due to the fact that I have been forced to spend my tim…
The Culture of the M2010 Data Mining Conference
Dr. Goutam Chakraborty is a professor of marketing and founder of the SAS and OSU Data Mining Certificate Program at Oklahoma State University. He has been involved with the annual data mining conference for five years and also teaches a Business …
Wide-Eyed & Wo(a)ndering at SAS HQ in Cary, NC
Hi Everyone. Well.It’s been a little while since I’ve committed word to paper and pushed out the thoughts burning at the edges of my brain… or perhaps its just the extreme heat here in Cary, NC, which is giving me that impression! I can practically s…
Passing a range to a SAS stored process via URL
Stored processes can be called via the SAS Stored Process Web Application using a URL. Though powerful and useful, the advanced usage concerning ranges requires explanation. Background Say you have a program called /path/myprogram on server sasserver, …