Back in June I extolled the virtues of the SYSTASK statement, but was frustrated by my inability to use it in certain circumstances. So I was very pleased to see Chris Hemedinger writing in his blog recently that the default ability to use SYSTASK (and…
Tag: SAS
NOTE: Changing the Default Length for Numeric Values
Choosing appropriate lengths for the variables in your SAS data sets can have a significant effect on the size of your SAS datasets and hence a) the disk space they consume, and b) the speed with which they are written to and read from disk.
The defau…
NOTE: Changing the Default Length for Numeric Values
Choosing appropriate lengths for the variables in your SAS data sets can have a significant effect on the size of your SAS datasets and hence a) the disk space they consume, and b) the speed with which they are written to and read from disk.
The defau…
NOTE: SAS Available on iPad! Free!!
Have you seen the SAS News app (available from the iTunes App Store)? It looks to be a neat alternative to following SAS blogs and press channels through an RSS reader. In SAS’s own words: “Follow and share the latest news, social feeds, product inform…
NOTE: SAS Available on iPad! Free!!
Have you seen the SAS News app (available from the iTunes App Store)? It looks to be a neat alternative to following SAS blogs and press channels through an RSS reader. In SAS’s own words: “Follow and share the latest news, social feeds, product inform…
Fours Errors in SAS 9.2 Fisher’s Iris Data in SASHELP Library
In the previous post, I just mentioned that Fisher’s Iris Data is embedded officially in SASHELP library in SAS 9.2. Note that even in SAS 9.1.3, you can also find this data with several instances from some demos in user guide (just search "Iris" in "SAS Help and Documentation" accompany with you SAS product), for […]
Who is Alfred?
Tell me something about Alfred, male or female? age? height and weight?
Oracle database (version 9 and below) had a well known default demo account SCOTT with a password, TIGER (and TIGER was the name of the real person Bruce Scott ’s cat, see) and in this account, there are some tables named DEPT, EMP, […]
NOTE: BI Adoption
I spotted a nice post from Lisa Pappas in the SAS Voices blog recently. It’s entitled “Boost your BI adoption rates with mobility & collaboration, part 1” and I’m looking forward to the second (and final) part.
Lisa describes how recent …