With SAS® 9.3 the SAS code for a Stored Process can be located in metadata rather than located the file system (as was required with earlier versions). I had often wondered whether this meant the SAS code was really in metadata or whether it appea…
Tag: Backup
Metadata Time Travel with SAS 9.3
The way SAS metadata backups are done in SAS® 9.3 has changed significantly. Significantly for the better I think. There are big changes but they are well well worth it. I’ll warn you now that this is a very long blog post with lots of image…
NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2011 – Back-Ups, and The Last Word #sasgf11
My trip to SAS Global Forum 2011 in Las Vegas was valuable to me for mahy reasons. I learned a lot of information about a) SAS in general, and b) SAS 9.3 (to be released later this year). I echo many of the sentiments of SAS’s Mike Kalt in this we…
SAS Metadata Backup on Windows 2008 R2
I was trying to run a manual SAS Metadata Server backup (OMABAKUP) on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit today. It failed! I run metadata backups many many times so I was sure all the normal prerequisites were in place but this was the first time I had run one on Windows 2008 R2 64 bit […]