Dear Data,
You are immense. Too big for me to create summary reports that are useful, perform basic statistical analysis to draw meaningful conclusions and I can forget just looking at you directly.
I am going for help – to Las Vegas, in October…
Macros for Standard Date/Time Processing
SAS Macro to process date/time
Demystifying SAS Grid Computing
Contributed by Bill Nasuti, Global Professional Services, SAS
We often hear folks refer to SAS Grid as if it were a single entity, when in reality it consists of many facets. SAS Grid provides a rich functional toolset to improve performance and r…
ISO 8601 Date Time Format
ISO 8601What’s new is BASE SAS 9.2
Creating a Relational OLAP Cube (ROLAP)
SAS allows for three different cube storage mechanisms:
1. MOLAP
The traditional SAS OLAP Cube will all aggregations / nway stored on a physical file structure accessible by the SAS OLAP Cube Server.
2. ROLAP
A relational OLAP cube – where no aggregati…
Does Crime Pay?
Answer: It certainly doesn’t pay authors. My sister recently told me that the Sacramento public library lists one copy of The Little SAS Book in their catalog. However, it turns out that someone has stolen that one copy. I figure that’s a compliment of sorts: Someone wanted The Little SAS Book enough to steal it. […]