A database professional’s best friend

To optimize a Structured Query Language (SQL), the database professional must befriend this order and perhaps even embrace it. Who is your best friend? I’m talking about the order in which SQL processes your statements. Simply put, in what order does…

Hats and apps on tap for my #SASGF13

When I travel to San Francisco in April for SAS Global Forum 2013, it will make my 12th time to attend the international SAS users group conference, and my 7th consecutive year. A lot of people assume that I automatically go every year, but the truth is that SAS employees […]

NOTE: Unable to Write to Template Store!

Sometimes you get into a habit that is so deep-seated that you don’t realise you’re doing it. I was just reminded of a little trick that I regularly use when editing ODS graphics templates.

A colleague of mine was using PROC TEMPLATE and getting the f…