Did you oversleep this morning? If you live in the United States of America, Monday morning seems to have arrived just a bit earlier, accompanied by a bit more “dark” than usual. That’s because as good time-fearing citizens, we have all set our clocks ahead by one hour so as […]
SAS and LDAP
I was just tasked to read in LDAP records so we could cross-reference userids with login identifiers and general ledger information. Using SAS to read LDAP was a bit of a challenge. I had used C# to read LDAP before and had been successful at…
Are you SAS Savvy?
Last week at Insurance and Finance User’s Group (IFSUG), I caught up with Sunil Gupta, a SAS Press author and a SAS expert. He was chairing one of the sections and presenting some information himself, which Angela Hall and Waynette Tubbs discussed in their blogs. However, Sunil is a busy man – the week before he was teaching a class about getting the most from PROC TABULATE in a live lecture from his SAS Savvy site. Touring SAS Savvy If you are just learning BASE SAS or SAS Enterprise Guide, then SAS Savvy should be a part of your weekly rotation. This site is a well-organized collection of original material and thoughtful links to other SAS resources. In addition, each month, Sunil hosts a live SAS Training session, giving you direct access to a leading SAS expert! Frequently Updated Savvy Content For the training sessions, Sunil uses a desktop sharing program and a voice conference. For the PROC TABULATE class, two others joined the session, so it was easy to ask questions and not feel like you were getting lost in the crowd. Sunil commented that after learning PROC TABULATE, he had stopped using PROC FREQ and PROC MEANS because […]
7 questions with SAS e-Learning Manager, Nancy Goodyear
Editors note: Nancy Goodyear, a 27 year veteran of SAS, manages our self-paced e-Learning product development. We are thrilled that Nancy has agreed to share her knowledge and unique experience as a blogger on The SAS Training Post. Today we’ll introdu…
Top 10 reasons for a modeler to learn PROC FCMP
10. New financial functions
34 pre-compiled financial functions were shipped with SAS for free, which can be called in DATA step.
9. A management GUI
There is a nice-looking Java-powered GUI to manage the user-defined functions: SAS FCmp functi…
SAS-Resources Site
Man it has been a long time since I updated this blog! But I have a good excuse. I have been working on a new site to share SAS stuff.There are already sites for programmers to share information, why would you create another one? Good question!Prett…