It was over two years ago that I shared the tip of using Process Explorer to look under the covers at which SAS processes were running on your Windows environment.
Process Explorer recently received a refresh, and it’s worth downloading the new v…
Data Management Maturity Models
I am a great fan of Maturity Models. I find them an excellent way of articulating to a business user where their organisation is at in terms of technology, governance or business processes and what we need to do to improve them. There are a quite a few Maturity Models out there now, from Data […]
SAS 9.2 Mid Tier Support for Windows 2008 R2
To date I had avoided Windows 2008 R2 because, until recently, it was not supported for the SAS 9.2 Mid Tier. I had read in SAS Installation Note 36616: SAS® 9.1.3 Service Pack 4 and SAS® 9.2 support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 that support for 2008 R2 was coming with the release of the […]
Rain, Sunshine, Sleet and Fog: Just Another Day in Vancouver
Vancouver strikes me as a bit of an abnormality on the west coast, at least in one sense. With its frantic, hurry-up, always-changing weather patterns it reminds me in some ways of the pace of life here on the east coast which is so markedly different…
Jedi SAS Tricks: Custom Bookmarks
I was building a nice little PDF report the other day. I love the way ODS PDF replicates the SAS Results window navigation structure as PDF bookmarks, but… I’d much rather write the text for the bookmarks myself. So, I decided to &qu…
The Penultimate Road Trip
This past week was the busiest of the fall 2010 Canadian SAS User Group season… and it certainly didn’t disappoint in any way! To be honest, I hardly know where to begin. There are so many tales to tell and people to recognize it makes my head spin…