… from my vacation,and ready for some exciting new developments in the SAS world!As those of you who regularly attend regional user group meetings can attest, SAS Canada has been quickly joining the social media frenzy. You will have heard myself – o…
Zero to SAS Certified Base Programmer in 3 months (Part 1)
I’m happy to report that I have achieved my SAS Certified Base Programmer credential. w00t!. I took my first SAS programming course on March 10th and passed my exam on June 18th (so I guess a more accurate title would say 3 months and 8 days!).
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Uploading a File (via the Web) into SAS
I must recommend that you check out this example from pg 70 of the SAS Stored Process Developers Guide. http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/stpug/61271/PDF/default/stpug.pdf
This is a pretty sweet example of how to upload a file from your mach…
Computing Ages in SAS: New Function Needed
The following excerpt is from an e-mail message I sent to suggest@sas.com. I know other people have suggested that we need a function designed specifically for computing ages, and I wanted to add my voice to that chorus. “I would like to make a suggestion for Base SAS. SAS needs a function that is designed […]
Tired of Typing domain/username to access SAS components?
The following option can be added to the Metadata Server to default users to a specific DOMAIN. This removes the requirement of using domain\username or username@domain formats for the username field.
-authproviderdomain (HOSTUSER:DOMAINNAME)
I …
Learning about What’s New in Your SAS Products
Contributed by Marie Dexter, SAS
Are you a customer who is upgrading from SAS 8.2 to SAS 9.2? Or are you a customer who is currently running SAS 9.2 and you want to apply the third maintenance release for SAS 9.2? How can you learn about the new …