The closing date for submission of papers for SAS Global Forum (SGF) 2012 has passed, but registration is now open. If you can get yourself to Florida, USA 22-25 April 2012, you will benefit from a vast array of papers (from SAS staff and from SAS cu…
Testing – Discipline
My dad says “if a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well”. I say “if a bit of code is worth writing, it’s worth testing it properly”. Maybe I’m stretching the old saying a little, but the principle remains true.
Software testing is a very large sub…
Testing – Discipline
My dad says “if a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well”. I say “if a bit of code is worth writing, it’s worth testing it properly”. Maybe I’m stretching the old saying a little, but the principle remains true.
Software testing is a very large sub…
SAS Enterprise Guide: Shielding your EG project from Hound Dogs
In the coming weeks, you’ll see more posts from Harsh Gajjar, who is SAS Business Intelligence (BI) and SAS Design Integration (DI) rising star in India. Today he is discussing how to keep nosy co-workers (lovingly referrer to as hound dogs) or when you want to ensure changes are not made by accident to your neat, sweet, and complete SAS Enterprise Guide projects. If you have some nagging DI questions, then send one of us an email or leave a comment below. Securing SAS Enterprise Guide Projects Every BI professional must be acquainted with the SAS Enterprise Guide Project. However here I’m going to discuss about the issues related to securing your process flow from unauthorized access. We are quite aware of the fact that the metadata security and permissions enable a user to restrict the access of data to specific people. (viz. SAS Admin ). However the metadata does not restrict a person from peeking into someone’s process flow or project to get some idea. Use Built-In Password Protection SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 has availed a facility to restrict the access to Project through password Protection. Click on project Properties-> Security and type the desired password. Another window appears to […]
Jedi SAS Tricks: Building a Name Suffix variable list
If you’ve taken one of my SAS classes you may recall “Mark’s 3 rules of programming”, the first of which is “Lazy programmers are GOOD programmers.” One of the things I love about best about SAS programming is the plethora of functions an…
FBS Coaches Avg. Salary
Of course, a few days before I leave for a much needed vacation, USA Today released their updated NCAA coaching salary database. For sports junkies, there’s an unlimited number of analysis and visualizations that can be done on the data. I took a quick break from packing to condense the data to a csv and […]