Tag: Coding & Data

Taming SAS Stored Process Selection List Prompts

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I like most things SAS.  But there are of course some features that I wish were implemented differently.  One of those is selection list prompts.  The good news is, even when SAS implements something in a way that I find, well let’s say, surprising, there is often a way to …

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Everything Still Starts and Ends with Data in SAS Visual Analytics

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VA LASR Data Management

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SAS Visual Analytics is changing the way data is analyzed and delivered in the SAS world.  The Visual Analytics LASR server brings a new method for handling large volumes of data directly in-memory.  New tools give businesses more power with less effort to prepare data for analysis, explore data, and …

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Coding: Quick Tip for Exploiting and Identifying SAS Formats

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SAS Formats Case Subcategory

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SAS formats are very useful for translating values into other values.  You may want to format values for something more presentable, use the format to do lookups within an ETL process for faster performance, or you may want to trick out a report with numeric values displayed as ranges.  There …

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3 Tips for Testing Large Data on Slow Connections or Escaping Upper Hell

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Do you ever find yourself wondering if you are paying for sins from a past life while you wait for SAS Enterprise Guide to show …

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Dashboards:Tips for Designing Dashboards with SAS Code

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I realize not everyone is using the SAS BI system, but that does not mean that you don’t need to create a dashboard.  In BASE SAS, dashboards are created using fairly simple SAS code (GKPI, macros, and ODS).  [Remember, you can insert the same PROC GKPI code into  Web Report Studio as …

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PC SAS Programmer Facing UNIX? SAS Enterprise Guide to the Rescue

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sas enterprise guide unix servers

Time for another confession.  For more than a decade I have been running SAS jobs on UNIX servers, but I don’t really know any UNIX editors.  Not Emacs.  Not vi.  I could work around this without SAS Enterprise Guide, but it was painful sometimes.  Now that I have started using Enterprise …

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