En Route to Steeltown North!

I don’t know about you folks, but Thanksgiving has to be one of my favourite holidays – in terms of food for sure! I like to think of it as a dry-run for the huge family feasts which inevitably define the December holiday season around my household. …

Data Cleansing Brings Out the Nerd in Me

For a brief moment in time, I worked in the Data Warehousing R&D Division at SAS. I was there at the same time that DataFlux joined the SAS family and data cleansing found its way into the product line. I don’t know why I find it so fascinat…

Default value to macro variable

NOTE: This is a great one we picked up from our friends over at the SAS community. We have run across this literally hundreds of times while programming SAS macros. You need to have a default value for a variable and you don’t want to write another macro to set it if it doesn’t exist. […]