Over the lastest year or two we have had ongoing issues running SAS 9.1 on 32 bit windows. Main two issues that constantly arise are: Metadata server exceeding addressable memory in 32 bit windows and crashing I/O errors intermittently reading/writing SAS datasets We have tried all the SAS “support” tools to reduce the size of our metadata […]
New Targeted Admin Courses from SAS
Checking my inbox today I saw an email from SAS Education with new course dates for 2010/2011. What really caught my eye was the addition of these new short (1-2 day) targeted admin courses: SAS Enterprise Guide: Administration SAS OLAP Environment: Administration SAS Enterprise Miner: Administration It’s great to see more admin training available from […]
Example 8.7: Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit
The Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness of fit (GOF) test is a way to assess whether there is evidence for lack of fit in a logistic regression model. Simply put, the test compares the expected and observed number of events in bins defined by the predicted p…
Keys to good macro design
On the final day of SESUG 2010, I only had time to attend one presentation. I chose Frank DiIorio’s %whatChanged: A Tool for the Well-Behaved Macro for two reasons: 1.) Papers about macros are big hits with SAS Tech Report readers and 2.) DiIori…
A little code from SESUG 2010
William Benjamin Jr. (Bill after you get to know him) is a SAS author and longtime SAS user. His was another title that I felt SAS users would really want to hear about. Benjamin presented Leave Your Bad Code Behind: 50 Ways to Make Your SAS Code …
Speeding up Web Report Studio (9.1/3.1) by jumping in puddles
When SAS 9.2 was released one of the changes SAS made was to change the default setting for WRS from using a standard workspace server to a pooled workspace server. This was to improve performance as pooled workspace servers remove the requirement for sas executables (sas.exe) to start and stop for each query, and therefore […]