What do social networking, SAS, and Saddam Hussein’s chauffeur have in common? The article, “Untangling the Social Web,” in the newest issue of Economist magazine has given SAS some nice free PR. I wonder if I’m an “influencer?” I wonder how long it will take for this posting to show up in SAS Institute’s own […]
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Import DBF in SAS
There are several ways to import DBF files in SAS. First, there is PROC DBF: filename dbfin ’employee.dbf’; proc dbf db5=dbfin out=employee; run; But in my environment (SAS 9.1.3 Windows XP; and SAS 9.2 on Windows Server 2008 with Enterprise Guide 4.2 …
NOTE: Marking Time with Enterprise Guide
In my recent review of a client’s SAS/Base jobs’ suitability for EG visual coding, I wasn’t surprised to come across some jobs that created new tables each month where the table names included the date. The table names were of the form MASTER.SALES_201…
NOTE: Celebrating Our 1st Birthday
Though I did a couple of test posts in July 2009, NOTE: really got started with its first post on Friday September 4th 2009. So, today we celebrate our first birthday.
In that year we’ve built a loyal band of followers. Thank you to all of you.
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Does Crime Pay?
Answer: It certainly doesn’t pay authors. My sister recently told me that the Sacramento public library lists one copy of The Little SAS Book in their catalog. However, it turns out that someone has stolen that one copy. I figure that’s a compliment of sorts: Someone wanted The Little SAS Book enough to steal it. […]
Passing a range to a SAS stored process via URL
Stored processes can be called via the SAS Stored Process Web Application using a URL. Though powerful and useful, the advanced usage concerning ranges requires explanation. Background Say you have a program called /path/myprogram on server sasserver, …
Make SAS much faster with data set compression
R is fast at processing data sets, but it is limited by memory (physical RAM plus swap). SAS processes much larger data sets, but it is slow because it keeps the data sets on the hard drive. Although computer processors have become faster and memory la…
SAS: Where Also
Ever heard of ‘where also’? Neither did we.
We have to give credit to the guys at the SAS Community.
‘Where also’ allows you to add a series of where statements. The use acts like a single where statement with the and condition….