Co-written with Gordon Cox@gtcox76 Gordon’s 7-yr daughter asked him what he learned in class at SAS Campus a few weeks ago. The subject, even for many SAS geeks like us, can be hard to tackle. Gordon was learning all about SAS GRID architecture, impl…
XCMD and SAS 9.3: working together again
It’s been a well-known limitation for a long time. When you connect to a SAS session using SAS Enterprise Guide, shell commands (including X command, SYSTASK, and FILENAME PIPE) are off-limits because the default SAS invocation disables them. It does this by including -NOXCMD as a command-line option. This makes […]
Random acts of kindness
Biked to the train station this morning…felt the wind, watched trees waving in the breeze…flew past Highway 403 with trucks whizzing by…felt noble about being environmentally conscious…took the side path to the station…slowed to a halt besi…
Clear the Results viewer in SAS 9.3
The Problem
The new default output destination in SAS 9.3 is the “Results Viewer” rather than the “Listing” window. The results viewer shows an html file that integrates text and graphical output. It’s pretty, and it’s very nice (sometim…
What does analytics mean to you?
Meet Radhika Kulkarni who heads the Advanced Analytics R&D Division at SAS Institute and is responsible for software development in Statistics, Operations Research, Econometrics, Text Analytics, Forecasting and Data Mining. Radhika is a Member of t…
Who is Alfred?
Tell me something about Alfred, male or female? age? height and weight?
Oracle database (version 9 and below) had a well known default demo account SCOTT with a password, TIGER (and TIGER was the name of the real person Bruce Scott ’s cat, see) and in this account, there are some tables named DEPT, EMP, […]