At the SAS Global Forum 2016 the SAS Viya platform was announced and part of the platform was SAS Visual Analytics and SAS Visual Statistics converting to the HTML5 interface. Noticeable changes were that the Designer and the Explorer have merged into …
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3 Methods to Remove Data from the HDFS VAPUBLIC Directory
When working with HDFS, you are often loading data to the various directories to upload into SAS Visual Analytics. However, sometimes you want to remove that data. Here’s three different ways to remove the data.
Method 1: Use the SAS VA Administrator Tools
If you have access to the Manage Environment area, you can use the Explore HDFS tab to interact with the data in the HDFS. You …
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SAS VA Administration: Setting up Your Security Model
One part of the Zenguard service is helping customer setup their SAS security model, which involves determining which users need to do what in the SAS Visual Analytics system. Most customers have the same basic needs – some users to view reports and some to prepare the reports. There can be a lot of variation after that point. Some of the report builders also administer the system …
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Administration: What Demons Are at Your Command?
In the US, Halloween is celebrated by young children dressing up as ghouls, ghosts, and demons of other sorts. I think the original idea of costumes was to be the scarier demon, which means if I look like a bad ass demon then maybe the truly bad ass demons will run away in fright. This made me wonder What do I truly find scary? Turns out it is not graveyards, …
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Admins – Need to Restore One Metadata Object from a Backup?
When I think of corruption, it usually is more about government. Certainly, I don’t picture myself slipping a C-Note to the metadata server for favors, such as giving me special access or maybe ensuing my jobs have priority (wink). Stig Eide, a SAS BI administrator, reminds me that corruption does occur …
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SAS Administration: Change the Options to Get More Performance
Every time I install SAS products or solutions I find myself using the same options in the SAS configuration file to set memory usage, CPU usage, and the SAS WORK library location. Obviously each installation has different thresholds configured but the options remain the same. In some situations not having the …
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