In the United States today is the scariest day of the year – All Hallows Eve. Tonight school children will run around dressed as monsters or Angry Birds demanding a treat from their neighbors. So here some treats for the SAS Business Intelligen…
Troubleshooting: sas.servers & hostname aliases
I ran into an interesting problem over the last few days with my SAS® 9.3 deployments on Linux. I had noticed that the sas.servers scripts for my Lev2 and Lev3 deployments were taking several minutes to start the SAS services. I know JBoss takes a…
Proc tabulate for simple statistics (corrected)
Ken Beath, of Macquarie University, commented on an earlier entry that the best way to generate summary statistics is using proc tabulate. While the best tools might differ, depending on the purpose, we wanted to share Ken’s code demonstrating how to …
Proc tabulate for simple statistics (corrected)
Ken Beath, of Macquarie University, commented on an earlier entry that the best way to generate summary statistics is using proc tabulate. While the best tools might differ, depending on the purpose, we wanted to share Ken’s code demonstrating how to …
Proc report for simple statistics
Ken Beath, of Macquarie University, commented on an earlier entry that the best way to generate summary statistics is using proc report. While the best tools might differ, depending on the purpose, we wanted to share Ken’s code demonstrating how to re…
SAS Error Message with an Attitude
I may have giggled snorted bellowed with laughter when I saw this error message in my log today. NOTE: There were 0 observations read from the data set WORK.TEST. WHERE 0 /* an obviously FALSE WHERE clause */ ; NOTE: The data set WORK.TEST has 0 observations and 15 variables. NOTE: DATA statement used (Total […]