Tag: Admin

NOTE: ODBC Performance

SAS is great at getting data from a huge variety of sources. With its SAS/ACCESS connectors, SAS can get data from these sources in an optimised fashion, i.e. using the native capabilities of the source data provider. In these days of increasingly larg…

NOTE: Documenting Your SAS Environment

If you’re a new starter, or somebody just gave you extra SAS administration responsibilities, you may be struggling to find your way around the new SAS environment. Brian Varney presented an insightful paper at this year’s South East SAS Users Group (S…

NOTE: Getting Social With SAS Metadata

I noticed a most intriguing post on Paul Homes’s Platform Admin blog recently. Do you and your colleagues discuss your metadata often? Paul thinks you should, and I’m inclined to agree.

This isn’t a new or unique idea. SAS were talking about a coll…

NOTE: Clean Your Cubes

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…

NOTE: Metacoda Plug-Ins V3 With Free Plug-Ins

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…

NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2012 – Futures #sasgf12

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…

NOTE: Looking Ahead to SAS Global Forum 2012 #sasgf12

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 …

NOTE: Hot Fix Home

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…