James Bond: “Give me the old fashioned target range, Quartermaster. “ Q: “Yes, well, it’s called the future, so get used to it.” In James Bond movies, it’s Q’s job to disguise wickedly effective technology as seemingly innocuous everyday object…
Tag: Serendipity
Calculating the number of working days between two dates
It’s a simple task to use SAS to compute the number of weekdays between two dates. You can use the INTCK function with the WEEKDAY interval to come up with that number. diff = intck(’WEEKDAY’, start_date, end_date); If you want to compu…
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder, Right?
We’ve all heard that at some point. You heard it when your best friend moved across town or changed schools. They were words of comfort when you returned from summer camp with your first crush. And you heard them again at graduation when you and your f…
I’m beta-testing 9.3. Buy me a drink?
Greg Nelson and Neil Howard presented a lunchtime keynote talk at SAS Global Forum, and they produced this video, “Revenge of the Semi-Colon People”, to go along with it. The video features many people from the SAS community, including customers and SA…
Six reasons to love summer in Canada
Walking to work this sign caught my eye. I was moved as I’m sure you will be too – to see the lot of students universally. Like most folks, I’ve played different roles in life. Of them I would say that my part-time student role was the most chall…
The top 10 errors, notes and warnings that prompt DATA step programmers to call SAS Technical Support
Contributed by Kim Wilson, SAS Technical Support As a DATA step programmer, you know the sigh of relief that comes when your job finishes and your SAS log is clear of any errors or warnings. When these messages do occur, most of the time they are intui…
Drilling Is Not Required
Find out how to get to your content faster. This comment was recently provided via the feedback link on support.sas.com: I wish I could navigate directly to the documentation without descending 3-4 levels in a tree. I’d like to just type RAND and go di…
Golden Nuggets of Helpful Information
I’ve been answering the most random set of questions over the last few days. In the process, I rediscovered some great resources; gems that are worthy of a mention here. Currently, you cannot change the e-mail address that you use to log in to support….