I’ve been so busy over the last month that I am just now getting a chance to sort through my notes from SAS Global Forum 2011. Here are a few highlights I found: SAS OnDemand for Academics SAS OnDemand for Academics (the cloud computing version of SAS) will be free for academic research starting in […]
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NOTE: Know Your Customers (Before They Know You)
I’m a fan of BBC reporter Rory Cellan-Jones’s blog. Just before jetting off to SAS Global Forum in April I noticed a most interesting article from Rory entitled World Stores – searching for retail success. The article talks of the success of …
NOTE: Taking a Risk?
A tweet by Manoj Kulwal (global product manager for SAS Enterprise GRC) a couple of weeks ago drew my attention to a Compliance Week article describing how the US Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) had (for the first time) brought financial penalt…
SAS went to a new line when INPUT statement reached past the end of a line
SAS has powerful features for reading data out of text files (such as CSV, TSV, datalines, and various other formats), but while reading text, you may find your data set is missing rows and the log has this non-intuitive error message (well, “not…
NOTE: PROC DELETE and Other Hits From the Past
Thanks for all your good wishes with regard to passing the magic 300 subscribers watermark. Needless to say, the number plummeted the day after I posted! I feel sure it’ll recover in time.
Thanks also to those who have responded to other recent posts….
NOTE: SAS Professionals Convention 2011 – Registration is Open
I mentioned in a recent post that SAS Professionals Convention 2011 would be held between July 12 – 14 in Marlow. The SAS events web site has now been updated with this year’s details. You can register for the event, and also respond to the call for pa…
Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder
I was recently introduced to the Windows 7 Problem Steps Recorder (PSR). Wow, it’s a well-hidden nugget of gold in Windows! Have you ever had the task of recording the steps you took in Windows? Perhaps to describe a problem, or maybe to create so…
NOTE: Writing Your Own Functions
Did you ever hear of PROC JLAUNCH? No, neither did I until I tried the FCmp Function Editor. And, if you didn’t know, the FCmp Function Editor is an interactive tool for exploring and maintaining functions created with PROC FCMP. There are a lot of goo…