Whilst New Year’s resolutions are still in our minds, I’m thinking about my training plans for 2012. One key element of my plan is attendance of SAS Global Forum in April, but at the other end of the scale is my choice of professional reading material …
SAS Management Console 9.3 Password Indication
You’ve probably encountered this issue too. As an administrator you just want to know whether someone has stored a password in metadata or not. You don’t want to know the actual password, just whether there’s one there or not, because…
SAS OLAP Cubes: Using PROC SQL and MDX to Query OLAP Cubes
SAS PROC SQL has a lot of neat ways you can extract and manipulate data. In my experience, SAS users typically write PROC SQL to query SAS datasets or relational tables in databases. You can also…
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SAS Info Map: Change Source Table Names from Klingonese to English
I love the way some data tables get named. After a while you begin to learn the patterns – but geez sometimes I think a true alien was involved. The names are cryptic and when the tables are…
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SAS Info Map: Change Source Table Names from Klingonese to English
I love the way some data tables get named. After a while you begin to learn the patterns – but geez sometimes I think a true alien was involved. The names are cryptic and when the tables are…
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Benchmarking of the CUSUM function in SAS/IML
Cumulative sums can be obtained in SAS’s DATA step by the RETAIN statement. As the codes below, a new variable of the cumulative values will be returned by DATA step’s implicit DO loop.
data one;
do i = 1 to 1e6;
z = ranuni(0);
o…