Tag: SAS

SAS Certified, Again

Last week I got another SAS certification, SAS Certified Data Integration Developer for SAS 9 and I must say it can’t be better as a SAS holiday gift for myself! I took all my SAS certificates when employed (when in Sanofi Pasteur, 2010, I got two SAS programming certificates, Base and Advanced). You may say […]

NOTE: Metadata-Bound Libraries in Action

Following my recent post about the excellent new metadata-bound libraries in V9.3 M2, I noticed Paul Homes publish a blog article with the results of his testing of this new capability. Paul shows some code samples and associated log output. Take a loo…

Getting SAS Software running on CrunchBang Linux 64-bit

This is a follow-up to my prior post on Getting SAS® Software running on Arch Linux 64-bit. In my quest for a new Linux distro the next stop was CrunchBang Linux. I like the look of CrunchBang because it’s lightweight, based on Debian, and u…

NOTE: Present Thinking

Christmas approaches, I’ve opened 18 windows in the SAS Professionals advent calendar (without winning anything, yet), written most of my Christmas cards, and my mind is firmly focused on the remaining Christmas shopping. However, I’ve allowed my min…

NOTE: Calling Stored Processes from SAS Code (PROC STP)

Stored Processes. Brilliant. An excellent (and easy) means of packaging your SAS code and making it available in parameter-driven form through Enterprise Guide, Microsoft Office applications (through the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office), Information Ma…

Getting SAS Software running on Arch Linux 64-bit

Recently, I’ve been looking to switch from Ubuntu to an alternative distro as the primary Linux platform for our Metacoda development/testing environments, where we also run SAS® software. I’ve run quite a few distros in my time includ…

How Do You Read?

There’s a lot of information out there in internetland; constantly being updated and added to. A lot of it is good, intelligent information, but it’s spread across many web sites. Visiting each of those web sites on a regular basis, checking for upda…