Doing some research on the new SAS Addin for Microsoft Outlook 4.3, to trouble shout an issue at a customer site (more on that later) when I came across this post on the SAS Support site. Sample 36921: Using the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office to publish documents that can be accessed from the SAS® […]
Tag: General
Hard disks are cheap, hosted disk space isn’t – why ?
Because nobody has decided to disrupt the market and make oodles of disk space available at little or no cost. I can now purchase a 1tb external hard drive for about NZD $99. This is for the disk and the external drive inclosure. I can get a dropbox account with 2GB of disk storage free. […]
SUNZ 2011 – a great conference
Well the New Zealand SAS User group (SUNZ) is over for another year, with over 250 people attending last Thursday. The presentations will be up soonish, but mine is up early here “Delivering Data Quality in the Real Word – A case study using SAS Dataflux” The main theme I got from the conference was the move […]
Installing Enterprise Miner 6.2 Client – Use the install and config option!
Had a weird one this week. SAS are installing a Grid environment at a customer site. We had already installed the SAS 9.2 clients on a dedicated Citrix box, so the dev team could test the new SAS 9.2 clients / functionality. We wanted to add a few clients, including the Enterprise Miner 6.2 client […]
SAS Global Forum 2011 Paper Done
Well got my paper in on time for my preso, excitedly titled:
“Paper 313-2011 – Migrating SAS® Enterprise Guide® Projects from SAS® 9.1 to SAS® 9.2″
And the presentaton itsself is almost finished.
Yah me!
JDBC Connection Strings
Different JDBC drivers requires different connection URL formats. A quick summary of various connection URL formats is provided here as a comparison and a reference: Driver Name: Apache Derby Network Client JDBC Driver Driver JAR File: derbyclient.jar Connection URL Formats: jdbc:derby://host/database Connection URL Examples: jdbc:derby://localhost/TestDB Driver Name: JDBC-ODBC Bridge Driver JAR File: None (included in […]
WPS – What the …….
Got an unsolicited email from Serus Software Zolutions who are it seems a WPS reseller in Australia. As you maybe aware WPS provide a set of software that is positioned as being able to natively run SAS code, for a fraction of the license/renewal fees SAS charge. As you can imagine SAS haven’t been happy about […]
Gartner BI Magic Quadrant 2011 and SAS
I see Gartner have released the 2011 magic quadrant for 2011 on 27 Jan 2011. The opening paragraph states: “In 2010, business users had greater influence over BI buying, often choosing data discovery vendors as an alternative to traditional BI tools. But megavendors continued to hold the majority of BI market share, despite ongoing customer dissatisfaction, by selling […]