You might also read that there were constant (although still not frequent) posts on SAS metadata querying and other administration tasks in SAS blogosphere since 2012 (when I started to play with it^). It is yet another evidence that more and more SAS programmers switched from SAS foundation to the so called SAS intelligent...
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When I think of corruption, it usually is more about government. Certainly, I don’t picture myself slipping a C-Note to the metadata server for favors, such as giving me special access or maybe ensuing...
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There SAS applications/procedures/features were not necessarily available since 2012. This year I paid special attention to them when began to use SAS 9.3. The following notes are totally my personal endorsement purely based my own experience as a user: XML File Reading: SAS XML Mapper SAS XML Mapper itself is not an elegant tool...
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Ever had the need to update table metadata by submitting SAS code? If so, you can use PROC METALIB to do so. This may be useful if you want to automate an ETL process, which loads tables and registers in metadata at the same time. Update Existing...
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By default, accessing third party relational databases can be very slow if not configured properly. I recently started using PostgreSQL 9.1, an open source database, to store high volumes of data for my SAS Global Forum 2013 paper. At first it was taking forever to load up data because SAS was inserting 1 row...
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Six user import and synchronization macros are available in the SAS Foundation directory, these are documented as available in creating programs to retrieve information and compare authentication provider (such as LDAP) account information with what is...
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A common question really and one that I get after posting code like yesterday's All SAS Stored Process Locations Report. The neat trick is just to type METABROWSE in a BASE SAS command window. (There are two other commands: METACON and METAFIND. Has an...
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A nice feature of SAS Enterprise Guide is the “Files” folder. This provides direct access to the file system where the workspace server is running. You can take advantage of this by configuring a central location where users can store data, SAS code, CSV files, Excel files, or anything useful. If this is not...
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