Contributed by Kim Wilson, SAS Technical Support
As a DATA step programmer, you know the sigh of relief that comes when your job finishes and your SAS log is clear of any errors or warnings. When these messages do occur, most of the time they ar…
The top 10 errors, notes and warnings that prompt DATA step programmers to call SAS Technical Support
Contributed by Kim Wilson, SAS Technical Support As a DATA step programmer, you know the sigh of relief that comes when your job finishes and your SAS log is clear of any errors or warnings. When these messages do occur, most of the time they are intui…
Testing I/O on your SAS Server
At the SAS Global Forum 2011 in the Grid architecture session , it was mentioned that SAS servers should be looking for a minimum I/O throughput of between 30-50mb/s per server (or Grid node). There is a good SAS paper on how to test the I/O throughput of a SAS server on both Windows and […]
NOTE: Looking forward to SAS Professionals 2011
Having just returned from SAS Global Forum 2011 in Las Vegas, I’m now looking ahead to this year’s SAS Professionals Convention. It’ll be in Marlow, April 12th to 14th. More information will be coming to the SAS Professional web site soon.
What Didn’t Stay in Vegas
Just flew back from Vegas, and boy, are my arms tired! (ba-dump)
If you attended SAS Global Forum, you probably learned a lot of things you didn’t know. But if you were a SAS employee, you also learned a lot of things you didn’t know. One of th…
Hammer time with high school students
This morning I delivered a talk to visiting high school students at the SAS campus. The topic: using SAS to analyze Twitter content.
Being teenagers, high school students are well familiar with Twitter. But this batch of students was also very …