Tag: mysql

The importance of measuring your business pain

If you write a blog, you deal with spam comments. That’s just part of the deal. Spammers are forever inventing new and creative methods for “tricking” you into accepting their spam comments. These comments have nothing to do with your blog topic but do contain trackback links to their own […]

Using PROC SQL to get the schema of a MySQL database

It’s Friday, and on SAS Voices they are posting fun stuff about dogs who work at SAS. I’m posting about PROC SQL and MySQL. You tell me – which of us knows how to ring in the weekend with style? I’ve been working with MySQL data sources lately, and SAS/ACCESS […]

Pivot tables and Cheezy Graphs? No more…

As any good analyst knows, working with data is not the problem. Good analysts have the skill necessary to combine, split, merge, slice, aggregate, or summarize data any way you can imagine. However, is that enough? Probably not.. What good does data do if you can’t communicate its meaning in a logical way. The day […]