I am a long-time SAS 9 Administrator, I feel very confident in my understanding of SAS 9 administration. I will admit I don’t know everything, but I have been administering SAS since the days of SAS 9.1.3. I often tell my students I am a general practitioner when it comes […]
Going from SAS 9 to SAS Viya and I can hardly contain myself was published on SAS Users.
Understanding the problem Working with character data of different encodings across different systems can occasionally result in failures to translate or transcode that data from its source format to a destination format. When using a SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME engine to query DBMS data, this scenario can end up causing errors when […]
The SAS/ACCESS Developer’s Corner: SUBCHAR-acteristics was published on SAS Users.
SAS’ Leonid Batkhan reveals how to use versatile iterative DO loops with index variable pertaining to SAS DATA steps.
Little known secrets of DO-loops with index variables was published on SAS Users.
SAS Viya 2020.1.4 introduced support for Kerberos delegation. As a result, Kerberos delegation will be available with the Long Term Support release 2021.1. This series starts with an overview and continues into authentication processing in detail, Kerberos delegation configuration, and requirements for SAS/ACCESS to Hadoop. Part 1 – SAS Viya […]
Kerberos delegation with the new SAS Viya: A 5-part series was published on SAS Users.
In many programming languages, there is a function named eval() that can be used to evaluate an expression and return the result at run time. For example, in Python, the eval() function parses the expression passed to it and runs a Python expression or code within the program. Even Python […]
How to evaluate SAS expression in DATA Step dynamically was published on SAS Users.
Welcome to the fifth installment in my series Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya. In previous posts, I discussed how to connect to the CAS server, how to execute CAS actions, how to work with the results, and how your data is organized on the CAS server. In […]
Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® – Part 5 – Loading Server-Side Files into Memory was published on SAS Users.
Kevin Russell of SAS Technical Support reveals the effects of data size and language elements in your code when you execute the DATA step in CAS.
Important caveats to consider when you run a DATA step on CAS tables was published on SAS Users.
SAS Global Certification is pleased to announce two (yes two!) new SAS Viya programming certifications. Traditional SAS programmers need to migrate their code and data to SAS Viya environments, and there are important skills required to make a successful transition. SAS Viya includes Cloud Analytic Services (CAS), where data is […]
Two New SAS® Viya® Programming Certifications was published on SAS Users.