Category: SAS

Don’t Forget About YouTube

I haven’t reminded you about YouTube in a while. After reading a recent post in the Open Mic blog, I thought it might be time to nudge you toward SAS resources on YouTube. It is a great way to take a break from your normal workday while still le…

My SAS Christmas List

Lovin’ the retro SAS swag! hrenee posted on twitter the sasmemories site on flickr.  It’s the start of a good collection of SAS goodies.
This reminds me, here are some items I’d like for Christmas:

Oddball t-shirts like those at T-shirt Bordello,…

Where is that Add-In

I’m making a leap of faith that one of the resources I provide in this post answers the question from a recent feedback form submission. If you have other interpretations or resources, please add them to the comments. Let’s help each other out.

Keep and Rename Data Set Options

I always forget which gets applied first when using the keep= and rename= data set options on the same data set. So I thought I’d just put it here so I will remember:Keep happens before the rename.Keep happens before the rename.Keep happens before the…

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A few months ago I got an email from my service provider vaguely stating they would no longer exist as a company and I better find an alternative. Yikes! I am still trying to sort everything out, but so far being forced to move has been a good thing. …

Continuous Reboot Message when Installing SAS 9.2 and EG 4.2

During the SAS 9.2 Deployment Wizard I was continually getting a message saying I had to reboot the machine.  After rebooting 3 times I new something was up.  Some searching on support.sas.com revealed the following fix:

Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MA…

Calculate a SAS Observation Length

Well, I couldn’t find this documented anywhere (someone correct me if I missed it) but the question for the day was how to calculate the SAS Observation Length. After some investigation, here is how it is done (pseudocode):obsLength = Sum of all of you…

New Forum Focuses on SAS Web Report Studio

We launched another forum on Friday afternoon! The Web Report Studio forum was created to establish a community of users that can share information, questions, and ideas about SAS Web Report Studio. While watching the discussions in our existing…