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 […]
Keep track of that
I’ve been a longtime fan of the WNYC radio show, Radio Lab.
Hosts Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad
have interviewed famed biologist
E.O. Wilson
a few times. Listening to him describe
his study of ants and how they make tracks and trails is a great story of perseverance and attention to detail.
E.O. Wilson had a bit of a head start on us, but here at SAS, we’re pretty good at tracking bugs, too.
Keep track of that
I’ve been a longtime fan of the WNYC radio show, Radio Lab. Hosts Robert Krulwich and Jad Abumrad have interviewed famed biologist E.O. Wilson a few times. Listening to him describe his study of ants and how they make tracks and trails is a great story…
Dump wide table to HTML report (SAS)
This SAS macro dumps a data set with many variables to an HTML report in a single line of SAS code. It’s useful on wide data sets (or in database speak, a wide table with many columns), with long character values, or where the customer needs to f…
One big, happy family at SESUG 2010
Randy Guard, Vice President, Sales Development & Product Management at SAS, gave the Opening Session keynote for SESUG on Sunday night. I’d never heard Guard speak before, so I didn’t know what to expect. He was surprisingly funny given h…