To join all of the others on the internet, here’s an “end of year” list… Blogger tells me that the most popular posts on the NOTE: blog this year were:
1. NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2011 – Update #3, 1,069 page views
2. NOTE: SAS Global Forum …
To join all of the others on the internet, here’s an “end of year” list… Blogger tells me that the most popular posts on the NOTE: blog this year were:
1. NOTE: SAS Global Forum 2011 – Update #3, 1,069 page views
2. NOTE: SAS Global Forum …
Over the past year I have worked on a number of SAS® 9.2 platform installations helping to get Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) working nicely for single sign-on (SSO) for the SAS platform. Whilst it’s relatively easy to turn IWA on, …
Our mini-series of hints and tips from past decades continues with 1999…
Appearing in the same issue of The Missing Semicolon (TMS) was i) an advertisement for Year 2000 Support (do you remember “Y2K”?), and ii) an article entitled “Decoding the _TY…
Continuing my mini-series of hints and tips from previous decades, here’s a paper from my first SAS Users Group International (SUGI) conference. The 18th SUGI (predecessor to today’s SAS Global Forum (SGF)) was held in 1993 in New York. Helen and Ginge…
Whilst the capabilities of SAS software increase markedly from release to release, the core capabilities remain the same. And that means that many hints and tips from years gone by are still valid today. Starting today I’m running a mini-series of tips…
In my recent series on testing I concentrated on dynamic testing, i.e. executing some or all of your code to see if it works. The other type of testing is static testing. This was featured briefly in my “SAS Software Development With The V-Model” paper…
… so says Yves Bot, advocate general at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Mr Bot’s guidance was issued in response to the July 2010 High Court case between SAS and World Programming Limited (WPL). The CJEU still needs to make a full …
A simple little macro I whipped up that’ll count down the number of days until an important event. %macro daysUntil(event, date); data _null_; diff = datdif(today(), input(“&date.”, anydtdte10.), ‘act/act’); call symput(‘days_until’, strip(diff)); run; %put There are &days_until days until &event; %mend; Macro call is straight forward: %daysUntil(Christmas, 12/25/2011); %daysUntil(Columbia_Marathon, 03/10/2012); I could have used various […]