Did you know that a selection of our most popular SAS training classes are offered in conjunction with SAS Global Forum at a 15% discount? If you’re planning to attend SAS Global Forum, arrive a few days early and take a class. These training cla…
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A sure-fire SAS Global Forum idea: yours for free
You can still get a paper proposal in for SAS Global Forum 2012. All you need is an idea. And probably some data. And also, some techniques for analyzing that data. Oh, and some conclusions would be helpful as well. I know: you are a busy person! You might not […]
Favourite Platform Admin Papers from SAS Global Forum 2011
These are some of my favourite papers from SAS Global Forum 2011. As a platform administrator and metadata fan I am obviously biased to a specific subset of papers. I’m sure there were many other great papers at the conference, but these are the ones that I liked the most based on my own interests. […]
SAS Global Forum 2011: Personal Notes
It’s wonderful. It’s awful. It’s wonderfully awful and awfully wonderful. –Frommer’s Las Vegas 2010
June at last! June, July and August (great thanks to French colleagues!) would be the best time to prepare a paper for next year’s SAS Global Forum (SGF, 2012 in Orlando, Florida). SGF2012 will hold at the “real” Walt Disney at Orlando […]
SGF 2011 Redux
It may just be me, but every time I attend SAS Global Forum, I always leave feeling that I have missed a large part of the conference. There are too many things going on at once and in too many different places for me to catch it all. Fortunately, for those of us who have […]
Highlights of SGF 2011
I’ve been so busy over the last month that I am just now getting a chance to sort through my notes from SAS Global Forum 2011. Here are a few highlights I found: SAS OnDemand for Academics SAS OnDemand for Academics (the cloud computing version of SAS) will be free for academic research starting in […]
The 3 R’s of SAS Training
I am a thinker by nature; always pondering my choices so that I make the most informed decisions. So for me, the Three R’s of SAS Training aren’t “Reading, wRiting and ‘aRithmetic”, they are Reason, Reflect and Ruminate which allows me …
The top 10 errors, notes and warnings that prompt DATA step programmers to call SAS Technical Support
Contributed by Kim Wilson, SAS Technical Support
As a DATA step programmer, you know the sigh of relief that comes when your job finishes and your SAS log is clear of any errors or warnings. When these messages do occur, most of the time they ar…