I had the pleasure of sitting through a session by Margaret Creva on I/O limitations of SAS on windows 2008. Will blog more on the sessions later but really the guts is if you are thinking of using SAS on Windows 2008 and have any sort of I/O requirements then the solution is simple….. Go Linux. Anyway once […]
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SAS Licensing/Bundling Changes, 9.3 and others
There seems to be a lot of movement in the the way SAS are bundling and licensing the multitude of SAS solutions and products at the moment. Here are the changes I think I heard before and during the SAS Global Forum (as always please check with your SAS Account team to confirm the details) SAS […]
If you need a SAS/Access to JDBC – Let SAS know (Please)
I have been doing some work with a customer who is implementing Business Objects Data Federator as the preferred mechanism for all tools to access their corporate data. This includes accessing data in their corporate applications as well as the Data Warehouse. They have a SAS Analytics environment and would like SAS to comply with this standard […]
New SAS Support Forum software looks great!
I managed to pass by the SAS Support Forum stand in Vegas and Renee Harpe was generous enough to show me through the ne/upgraded SAS Support forum software they currently have in beta. I gotta save it looks great! Lots of new features and importantly new features that will save time when creating, browsing, reading or […]
SAS 9.3 – Planned for release in Q3 2011
SAS Global Forum 2011 in Vegas seems to be all about SAS 9.3. Interesting for me as a number of customers in New Zealand are still on SAS 9.1 and yet to upgrade to SAS 9.2. The other thing that is interesting is that while SAS are talking about new SMC 9.3 capability (and in fact a […]
SAS Forum 2011 – What will they announce?
Well apart from SAS 9.3 (ill post more on that later) I am guessing SAS will be publicly announcing their new BI capability due out at the end of this year. There has been a rumor round for a while that SAS HO wasn’t happy with the latest Gartner BI Magic Quadrant. So a decision was made to put some […]
SAS Forum Papers online – all the way back to 1976!
Just noticed over on sascommunity,org (http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/SAS_Global_Forum_Proceedings) that they have posted scanned copies of all the papers from SAS Forum (SUGI) all the way back to 1976!
Wonder how many people who presented in 1976 ar…
Updating SAS PC Files Server Port
When installing the SAS PC File server it defaults to using port 8621. But if you have the SAS Stored Process server installed in SAS 9.2 it also uses port 8621. So when trying to start the SAS PC File server as a Windows services it won’t start. To change the port, open the SAS […]