Tag: SAS

NOTE: Booked and Ready for SGF (SAS Global Forum)

My SAS Global Forum (SGF) paper proposal has been accepted by the conference organisers and is scheduled for 5:40pm on Wednesday April 6th. You can see further details in the conference agenda builder (warning: big page, slow to load).

My pa…

NOTE: SAS Success

For the second year in a row, SAS has been judged as Best Company To Work For by Fortune. In fact it’s the 14th year in a row that SAS has been included in Fortune’s top 100 companies to work for.

If you are a SAS employee you’ll be pleased; but if yo…

Reviewing Installed SAS 9.2 Software and Hotfixes

If you’ve ever needed to review which SAS® software components have been installed on your SAS servers and clients, as well as know which hotfixes may have already been installed, then you will be interested in SAS Usage Note 35968: Using the ViewRegistry Report and other methods to determine the SAS® 9.2 software releases and […]

Too Big to Be Accurate(1): Which is the Most Powerful Calculator in the World?

Calculate the factorial of 171 (171!)? Just TRY! It is equal to 171*170*169*….2*1.
1. Google calculator
As Google fanatics, I first try to search the answer via Google:

Whoops, nothing interested returned! Type “170!” and get the output:
Why kinda things happened in this calculator? 171! is just equal to 171*170!.
2. Excel
Switch to Excel spreadsheet. Function fact(*) […]

Perks are epic

When I started Peer Revue, I tried to point out it’s the work we do that makes SAS such a cool place to be,
not just the fancy-schmancy benefits that get all the headlines.
But FORTUNE magazine apparently has another agenda; they’ve gone and named…

Perks are epic

When I started Peer Revue, I tried to point out it’s the work we do that makes SAS such a cool place to be, not just the fancy-schmancy benefits that get all the headlines. But FORTUNE magazine apparently has another agenda; they’ve gone and named SAS …

Greatest Hits of 2010

I should have posted this a couple weeks ago, but I’ve been hard at work writing papers for SAS Global Forum (more about that in future posts!). These were the popular posts and pages on AvocetSolutions.com in 2010. 1) What can I use SAS for? 2) Top 10 Reasons to Use SAS Enterprise Guide 3) […]

SAS Web Report Studio In-Process Scheduling Port Allocations for Lev1, Lev2 …

Today I was installing SAS 9.2 with the latest 4.3 web apps on Linux 64-bit (from a very new 920_11w03 depot). After successfully setting up a Lev1 environment I then went on to create a Lev2 environment (on the same machine). All was going ok until I got to the page in the SAS Deployment […]