You may recall my post this time last year in which I highlighted the fact that Enterprise Guide 4.1 will expire and stop working on December 1st 2010 unless you have applied 9 or later. Today is November 1st, so you have one month left if you haven’t …
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Adventures in SAS Installations
Installing SAS 9.2 TS2M3 on four computers running two operating systems took six days and one tracking number. Not bad, not bad at all considering my experiences with other recent releases. When Enterprise Guide 4.3 was released at the end of August, I was eager to try out the new features for programmers. The only […]
Using Enterprise Guide on Windows 7
I recently got a new computer with a new (to me) operating system—Windows 7. I’m one of those diehards who stayed with Windows XP (and even with Office 2003), refusing to switch to Vista. This is a big change. I feel slightly dazed and disoriented because everything works so differently. So you can imagine how […]
SAS Enterprise Guide Tip: Exporting Results and Preserving Historical Versions
Our Instructor Tip videos have received positive feedback and often generate follow-up conversations between our instructors and our users. For example, just this week, one of our instructors, David Ghan, responded to a question that he received …
NOTE: Sort Your Sorted Data
In my previous post I spoke of using views to give you access in EG visual coding to tables with dynamic names. This works well, but there’s one final observation to make if you want to avoid poor performance in some circumstances.
If you’re used to u…
NOTE: Marking Time with Enterprise Guide
In my recent review of a client’s SAS/Base jobs’ suitability for EG visual coding, I wasn’t surprised to come across some jobs that created new tables each month where the table names included the date. The table names were of the form MASTER.SALES_201…
Exporting Last Submitted Code from EG
You can export the .sas code from a specific task or the entire project into a .sas file! It’s great when publishing a project into a repeatable batch/schedule process.
However, be aware of default names for the .sas resulting file. I recently ran ac…
How SAS Enterprise Guide saved a marriage
I don’t know what you did for the Memorial Day weekend, but I went to Boston to staff a booth at the Association for Psychological Science conference. I went to talk to university professors about the SAS Global Academic Program and SAS OnDemand…