Tag: Serendipity

New Community for SAS Drug Development Users

It has been a while since I got to announce a new community for SAS users.  Our latest community contains great information targeted at users of SAS Drug Development.  This community deviates from our usual offering.  The SAS Drug Development Forum …

Performance help for customers running SAS on AIX

Back in September, I shared performance help for SAS 9 users who run on Windows 2008.  At that time, I promised more insights from Margaret Crevar.  Your next installment has arrived! For all the SAS customers running on AIX (5, 6, or 7), please note…

SAS Insight Series in Australia and New Zealand (August 2011)

I feel privileged to have been invited back to meet with SAS customers throughout New Zealand and Australia. I also feel lucky to escape the North Carolina summer (with temperatures trending in the 90s Fahrenheit) in exchange for the “winter” weather D…

New Certification Record Set

Records were made to be broken, and the SAS Professionals Convention continues to break them year after year.  Held each year at SAS UK headquarters in Marlow, this three day conference provides an opportunity for SAS professionals to network with…

New SAS Release Brings Changes for Documentation

Contributed by Helen Weeks, Editing Manager, SAS Whether you’re moving to SAS 9.3 or still using SAS 9.2, you’ll want to check out the changes that we made to the Product Documentation on support.sas.com. Navigation Changes Many things in the documenta…

Dear Miss SAS Answers: Help me see my ODS output

Dear Miss SAS Answers, I have a problem getting PDF, HTML, and RTF output from the Output Delivery System (ODS). It asks me to connect to a remote browser. When I try that, I have a connection failure. I am using Base SAS 9.2 software. What am I doing …

64-bit SAS –Are you being served?

Last night I had a phone conversation with a car rental customer service rep (CSR) which went somewhat like this: Me – Hi, I’d like to rent a compact car for this Saturday in Toronto. CSR- Your name? Me- Do you have a car available? CSR-I need your n…

Are you too good for code reviews?

The recent issue of InformationWeek features a Q&A session with Ken Thompson, one of the creators of the Unix operating system. (He collaborated with Dennis Ritchie, of C language fame. Since much of SAS is written in C, I daresay there are a few c…