It's not spring-time, but it's still worth giving a thought to the cleanliness of your environment, for the benefit of reducing complexity and of reducing space usage. Angela Hall posted a great article about Cleaner OLAP Cube Physical Folder Structu...
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Metacoda's Michelle recently wrote to me. I'm a fan of the Platform Admin blog, written by Metacoda's Paul; and I've long been a fan of Metacoda's Security Plug-Ins that offer a far wider and clearer window onto the complexity of SAS security me...
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Due to the failure of my Asus Transformer tablet I'm still reduced to posting from my phone. So please forgive my brevity!
Yesterday was a good day for me at the conference. I attended a number of futures sessions in the morning and gained some insigh...
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Tomorrow morning (Saturday) I'll be leaving on a jet plane and heading to Orlando for SAS Global Forum 2012.
There's plenty to look forward to but some of the key interests for me include:
1) A new version of the Metacoda Security Plug-in. I look ...
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A recent upgrade from SAS 9.1 to 9.2 necessitated an upgrade from Enterprise Guide (and Add-In for Microsoft Office) 4.1 to 4.3 for one of my clients. Disappointingly, the EG and Add-In upgrades didn't prove to be the smoothest, and the exper...
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There's a nice walkthrough of some of the features of the SAS 9.2 metadata server on the SAS Professionals web site in the Social Media / Videos section. You'll have to be a SAS Professionals member to view it from the link I've provided, but if ...
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Paul Homes of Metacoda in Australia (suppliers of the Metacoda Security Plug-Ins for SAS) recently published a very well written blog article on SAS 9.3, the installation thereof. Amongst all of the other good information and advice from Paul, I was pa...
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If you care about what SAS is doing on your Windows server, you need to read Chris Hemedinger's posting on Microsoft's Process Explorer V14.01 for Windows. It seems that PE is a free utility that is downloadable from Microsoft. It's not a pretty tool, ...
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