I’m back in Australia now after attending SAS Global Forum 2013 in San Francisco last week. As always it was a fantastic conference where I got to meet lots of other enthusiastic SAS users, see some great papers about SAS software (though I never…
Tag: SAS Papers
Debugging at SGF
Most people think that all insects are bugs, but, in fact, only species belonging to the order Hemiptera are considered by scientists to be “true bugs.” There are about 932,000 species of insects, but only 82,000 species of true bugs. Fortunately for us, there are a lot fewer species of SAS bugs. SAS bugs can […]
Favourite Papers from SAS Global Forum 2012
These are some of my favourite papers from SAS Global Forum 2012 last month. I didn’t to get to see as many papers in person as I’d originally planned; we were very busy at our Metacoda stand. So it was great that the papers had already bee…
NOXCMD: NO eXternal CoMmanDs!
SAS® platform administrators can get quite familiar with the SAS NOXCMD option, usually when someone asks why their programs that used to work (in a different SAS version or execution environment) are now failing. Perhaps the programs ran ok with SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 using a SAS 9.1.3 server but now fail with SAS Enterprise […]
Sunil’s Top 10 SAS Papers: Guest Blog by Sunil Gupta
I recently learned about an interesting resource for SAS users. Sunil Gupta—a SAS Press author and consultant—maintains lists of his favorite SAS papers on various SAS-related topics. You can peruse these lists on his page on SAScommunity.org. Here are some of Sunil’s Top 10s: Sunil’s Top 10 PROC FORMAT/Functions Papers Sunil’s Top 10 PROC COMPARE […]
Susan’s Macro Mottos
With SAS Global Forum less than two months away, I am busy putting the finishing touches on my papers. One of those papers is SAS Macro Programming for Beginners. Of all the conference papers I have written over the years, this is probably my favorite. Yet oddly, I have only presented this paper once at […]
Greatest Hits of 2010
I should have posted this a couple weeks ago, but I’ve been hard at work writing papers for SAS Global Forum (more about that in future posts!). These were the popular posts and pages on AvocetSolutions.com in 2010. 1) What can I use SAS for? 2) Top 10 Reasons to Use SAS Enterprise Guide 3) […]
SAS Nerd: Guest Blog by Kirk Lafler
One of my favorite presentations at the recent Western Users of SAS Software conference was presented by Kirk Lafler of Software Intelligence Corporation. He has graciously agreed to allow me to share his paper “You Could Be a SAS Nerd If…” on this site. Here are a few of my favorite parts from his paper: […]