Before we’ve even got SAS Global Forum under our belts, registration for SAS Professionals Convention in Marlow, July 10th to 12th 2012, is open!
At £125 for three days of SAS activities, it’s got to be the best value SAS offer you’ll see in the UK…
IML IRL: Another Fantastic Rendez-vous au Club SAS de Québec
I’m composing this en route to Toronto from one of my favourite stops on the user group tour, the beautiful historic city of Québec. I always find myself grinning with anticipation before arrival and disappointed when I have to leave. It’s not j…
What would SAS Stored Process Key #51 be?
This past Monday, Tricia and I released our 2nd book this year. “The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes” provides a step-by-step approach to transitioning from SAS code into user driven (prompted) stored processes. Trimming down all the things yo…
Tell the community story in 20 seconds
April. What a month it has been and it isn’t over yet. At the beginning of the month, we launched a new and very different communities.sas.com. Just yesterday, the SASware Ballot moved from its traditional voting application to the community. …
Myths about 64-bit computing on Windows
When I first joined SAS in 1993, we were gliding into the golden age of 32-bit computing on the PC. Microsoft offered a new extension to Microsoft Windows 3.1 called Win32s, and it allowed 32-bit applications to run on the Windows operating system. SAS Version 6.10 for Windows was one […]
Stored Processes: SAS’s voice on Business Intelligence
Everyday I write SAS scripts to extract, transform and load data from various sources, which is a step before the database, and also pull out data to do analysis such as aggregation and regression in SAS, which is a step after the database. According t…