Since the introduction of metadata-defined LIBNAMEs in the earliest days of version 9, it’s been a frustration that the security that can be applied within SAS metadata to control who can access libraries can be completely undermined by users simply …
NOTE: ODBC Performance
SAS is great at getting data from a huge variety of sources. With its SAS/ACCESS connectors, SAS can get data from these sources in an optimised fashion, i.e. using the native capabilities of the source data provider. In these days of increasingly larg…
Are you at a graphics crossroads?
When we were out to dinner one night, with my daughter and her friend, Leanne, the girls were having a hard time deciding on their orders. Leanne joked that it was too hard to “tween bechoose” all the items on the menu. When I talk to some of my studen…
Command line arguments in SAS / SAS System Options
Most often than not, we tend to run the SAS program in command lines. If the SAS is present in UNIX, we open a client terminal like PuTTY or SSH terminal and invoke the SAS program. If the SAS is present in Windows, then we can do the same by opening c…
NOTE: Documenting Your SAS Environment
If you’re a new starter, or somebody just gave you extra SAS administration responsibilities, you may be struggling to find your way around the new SAS environment. Brian Varney presented an insightful paper at this year’s South East SAS Users Group (S…
NOTE: Getting Social With SAS Metadata
I noticed a most intriguing post on Paul Homes’s Platform Admin blog recently. Do you and your colleagues discuss your metadata often? Paul thinks you should, and I’m inclined to agree.
This isn’t a new or unique idea. SAS were talking about a coll…