Some of us were raised in households where no food was ever wasted unless it was truly unsafe. “Just cut the edges off!” was heard in my house almost as often as the dreaded (but thrifty), “Put on a sweater if you’re cold!” As noble as it is …
Tag: Enterprise guide
Change your passwords without locking out your connection
Did you change your LinkedIn password yesterday? (If you didn’t, you should!) But did it happen to be the same as your corporate password? First, tisk tisk. Second, change your corporate password NOW! Ok, now that this is done ~ don’t let your save…
Use SAS Enterprise Guide to quickly understand a new data set
During IFSUG yesterday, Sunil Gupta gave attendees to his presentation a special homework assignment. Look into the SAS Enterprise Guide task ‘Characterize Data’. Sunil suggested that this was a simple approach to quickly getting a summary of all the v…
NOTE: Hot Fix Home
A recent upgrade from SAS 9.1 to 9.2 necessitated an upgrade from Enterprise Guide (and Add-In for Microsoft Office) 4.1 to 4.3 for one of my clients. Disappointingly, the EG and Add-In upgrades didn’t prove to be the smoothest, and the exper…
NOTE: Enterprise Guide 5.1 – Now Shipping!
If you haven’t already picked-up the news from elsewhere, I should tell you that Enterprise Guide 5.1 (EG 5.1) started shipping earlier this month. For SAS 9.2 and 9.3 only* at this point in time, EG 5.1 looks like it adds some decent new functionality…
Harness the power of the cloud for learning SAS
Since this is my first post on The SAS Training Post blog, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kathy and I am an instructor at SAS Headquarters in Cary, NC. I teach SAS courses in our on-campus training center, at regional training ce…
How to use SAS to strengthen friendships
As SAS Instructors we travel fairly frequently, and like most of you we have friends scattered throughout the country. High school friends, college friends, family we like (or pretend to). And if I’m on a business trip, I like to see if they are avai…
SAS BI: Conditional Highlighting for Reports
Conditional highlighting, also referred to as traffic lighting, helps report consumers quickly recognize when the data is showing the desired trends based on their targets. Today I’ll talk about the color choices for the highlighting from MS Ex…