Tag: SAS

NOTE: Latest SAS-Related Periodicals (plus IN in macro)

The last few weeks have seen a couple of SAS-related periodicals published:
Issue 51 of VIEWS News is available. As ever, the archive of back-issues is a valuable resource
System Seminar Consultants released the autumn 2010 issue of The Missing Semicol…

NOTE: What Would You Add or Change? SASware Ballot is Open

The annual SASware ballot is now open for business. The ballot is SAS’s annual survey of customers to see what new features and enhanced features they would like. The results are traditionally presented at SAS Global Forum. Democracy in action!

Edmonton SAS User Group (eSUG) Suggestions

At Edmonton SAS User Group (eSUG) meeting last October 27th, 2010, Matt Malczewski delivered his SAS and Social Media: What’s in it for me??? presentation.  One question he posed to the group was how Facebook and LinkedIn could or should be u…

Jedi SAS Tricks: Custom Bookmarks

I was building a nice little PDF report the other day.  I love the way ODS PDF replicates the SAS Results window navigation structure as PDF bookmarks, but… I’d much rather write the text for the bookmarks myself.  So, I decided to &qu…

NOTE: BI Clients V4.3 Available; SAS in Microsoft Outlook (SAS Central)

Version 4.3 of the SAS BI clients was released in the last couple of days. Read more in the What’s Different (Planning for Maintenance) page on the SAS web site.

Not only did I miss SAS Global Forum this year, but I also missed the announcem…

NOTE: World Programming vs SAS – Both Sides Claim Victory!

The court case between SAS and World Programming Ltd (WPL) recently ended with both sides claiming victory. No surprise there then! Outside the court, it became a battle of the press releases…

WPL’s press release told of David slaying…

Copyrights and Apple Pie

Like all writers (and artists, musicians, software developers, and other creators of content) I am concerned about the problem of copyright infringement. (Here is my previous post about this.)  So I was interested to find out that while I was at the Western Users of SAS Software conference, there was a veritable brouhaha about this […]

SAS / Teradata Fastexport – dbsliceparm = all

Fastexport is the fastest way to get large data out of teradata. Fastexport utilizes multiple connections to deliver data and therefore speeding up the transfer of data between Teradata and SAS. Here are a few examples of fastexport. /* libname statement*/ libname teradb  teradata username=&un password=&pw dbsliceparm=all; /* explicit sql */ proc sql; connect to […]