If you’re a new starter, or somebody just gave you extra SAS administration responsibilities, you may be struggling to find your way around the new SAS environment. Brian Varney presented an insightful paper at this year’s South East SAS Users Group (S…
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NOTE: Getting Social With SAS Metadata
I noticed a most intriguing post on Paul Homes’s Platform Admin blog recently. Do you and your colleagues discuss your metadata often? Paul thinks you should, and I’m inclined to agree.
This isn’t a new or unique idea. SAS were talking about a coll…
Extract the Version of SAS and OS of a SAS Format or Macro Catalog: A Little Bit of Perl Regular Expression
SAS Sample 34444(Determine the operating system in which a format catalog was created) posts piece of codes to get the version of SAS and OS of a SAS format catalog. It is useful since a SAS catalog can be only read in the operating systems same to its source machine. 2 cents add to this […]
NOTE: Now I see Visual Analytics
I’ll confess that whilst there was a lot said about SAS Visual Analytics at this year’s SAS Global Forum, I came home with some confusion over its architecture, functionality and benefits. I was fortunate to spend some quality time with the software …
SAS Administrator Series on SAS Users Groups Blog
If you’re a SAS platform administrator and you subscribe to the SAS® Tech Report you probably noticed the following snippet in the November 2012 issue: And take a look at the new series for SAS administrators on the SAS Users Groups blog. Christ…
Macro Quoting in SAS Data Integration Studio
You can run the following piece of codes successfully in these 3 SAS programming environments: BASE SAS Enterprise Guide: create a new “File-New-Program” SAS Data Integration Studio: create a new “Tool-Code Editor” %let species="Setosa" "Versicolor"; data a; set sashelp.iris; where species in (&species); run; Then create a Transformation in SAS Data Integration Studio […]
The Little SAS Book Fifth Edition
Five editions is a lot! If you had told me, back when we wrote the first edition, that some day we would write a fifth; I 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 those clever folk at […]
Roadside Wisdom
I’m not normally a fan of graffiti. But I have been quite taken with one particular instance of graffiti that appeared in my neighborhood a few months ago. Here it is: I don’t know who wrote this, but I like their way of taking something ordinary and injecting it simultaneously with humor and profundity. For […]