This tip was prompted by a question from a Metacoda customer who, having seen a SAS® metadata object id in a log file (e.g. A53GCFFH.AP00001D), wanted to quickly identify what SAS metadata object that id referred to. As a Metacoda Plug-ins user th…
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Data in the Time of Pandemic
With COVID-19 spreading worldwide, accurate data have become more important than ever. In this blog, I share some of my favorite sources: The Economist Reported deaths often underestimate actual deaths. One way to get at the real numbers is to compare total deaths from all causes versus the typical death rate. This “mortality tracker” plots […]
Are you good at debugging SAS code?
I have always believed that good debuggers are good coders for the simple reason that once you understand a bug, you will be better able to avoid it in the future. You can test your debugging skills with this blog I wrote for SAS Press.
Happy Birthday SAS Press!
Do a little time travel with this short video showing highlights from the last 30 years for SAS Press and the tech world.
The Little SAS Book 6.0
Six editions is a lot! If you had told us, back when we wrote the first edition of The Little SAS Book, that someday we would write a sixth; we would have wondered how we could possibly find that much to say. After all, it is supposed to be The Little SAS Book, isn’t it? But […]
Accessing Excel Files Using LIBNAME XLSX
If you have been using SAS for long, you have probably noticed that there is generally more than one way to do anything. The Little SAS Book has long covered reading and writing Microsoft Excel files with the IMPORT and EXPORT procedures, but for the Sixth Edition we decided it was time to add two […]
Duplicating or Copying SAS Groups and Roles
As mentioned in an earlier post, Duplicating or Copying SAS Access Control Templates, Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R3 also includes support for duplicating groups and roles in SAS metadata. This can be useful when you want to create a new group that is very s…
Duplicating or Copying SAS Users
As mentioned in my previous post, Duplicating or Copying SAS Access Control Templates, Metacoda Plug-ins 6.1 R3 also includes support for duplicating users in SAS metadata. Metacoda customers have often asked us for the ability to create a new user jus…