I was very pleased to meet SAS’s Chris Hemedinger at this year’s SAS Global Forum. Needless to say, he was espousing the virtues of Enterprise Guide when I found him!
If you’re a regular NOTE: reader you’ll know that I’m a fan of his blog. I was jolly…
In the past I’ve bemoaned the lack of (free) third-party Enterprise Guide custom tasks (add-ins). Nothing much has changed in that respect, but SAS’s Chris Hemedinger recently released another. On this occasion it’s for shrinking character variables to…
Had an interesting experience with the new SAS 9.2 environment at a customer site. We have got SAS 9.2 (actually SAS Grid but thats irrelevant for this post) installed on RedHat 5 Linux. As we are using Linux and not Windows we lose the standard integration with Active Directory. We didn’t want to implement PAM integration with AD (mainly because nobody can articulate clearly all […]
Just noticed Chris has posted an entry outlining a new hotfix for Enterprise Guide 4.3.
Details are here: http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/C44.html#C44006
Marty HultgrenMichelle BucheckerSAS Global Forum creates a big buzz in the SAS user community, so in order to find out what the fuss is about, I decided to chat with a couple of our instructors who would be going to Las Vegas. In addition to teach…
Chris posted earlier this month about the documentation that is available on the SAS Support site (http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/guide/customtasks/) which outlines how to create addin’s for Enterprise Guide. We showcased our first Enterprise Guide addin at the SUNZ conference last week, it allows users to kill their own SAS exe’s that have gone rogue on the SAS Server. Ill post […]
I recently learned about an interesting resource for SAS users. Sunil Gupta—a SAS Press author and consultant—maintains lists of his favorite SAS papers on various SAS-related topics. You can peruse these lists on his page on SAScommunity.org. Here are some of Sunil’s Top 10s: Sunil’s Top 10 PROC FORMAT/Functions Papers Sunil’s Top 10 PROC COMPARE […]
Well if anybody else can answer this then give Chris a race for his money Based on my previous post it got me thinking about hoe EG retrieved the data. It looked to me like EG retrieved the preview data into the EG project for the table selected, but failed to run the SAS query on the workspace server. […]