With the Western Users of SAS Software 2013 conference coming soon, I am looking forward to being part of three presentations. One of those presentations is Writing Code in SAS Enterprise Guide This is based on a paper written several years ago for SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1. That paper became obsolete almost immediately. So I’ve […]
Tag: Enterprise guide
Taming SAS Stored Process Selection List Prompts
Author: Quentin McMullen
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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Sync everything up, at least between EG & metadata
From an Enterprise Guide user’s perspective, a SAS library is a library. Whether it was defined in the autoexec or in the metadata or by magic, it is there for them to use with no issues. However, there is a difference as metadata defined libraries do …
Coding: Quick Tip for Exploiting and Identifying SAS Formats
Author: Steve Overton
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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Using an Autocall Macro Library in SAS BI
Author: Quentin McMullen
a SAS programmer, I am dependent on my SAS autocall macro library. It stores a bunch of utility macros that I use on a daily basis. When I started learning about stored processes and other BI tools, one of my first thoughts was “How can I access all of my …
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3 Tips for Testing Large Data on Slow Connections or Escaping Upper Hell
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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Go further building custom graphs and reports with SAS Enterprise Guide
I probably shouldn’t admit this… When I first started learning the SAS programming language 15 years ago, I just couldn’t figure out how to easily create pretty, customized graphs and reports. So, I would prepare my data in SAS, then export t…
Which Little SAS Book?
One of the problems that Lora Delwiche and I face as authors of two books with similar titles (The Little SAS Book and The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide) and multiple editions (five of LSB and three of LSBEG) is explaining how the books are different. The two books are totally different–and complementary. So […]