A favourite interview question of mine is: Compare and contrast SAS 9's stored process server and workspace server. This question is very good at revealing whether candidates actually understand some of what's going on behind the scenes of SAS 9. I mentioned this back in 2010, together with some notes on my expectations...
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I recently spotted some cracking advice from Charu Shankar (SAS Education) on the SAS Users Groups blog. No matter how many times one has presented at conferences, there's always room for improvement; and the biggest influence on one's presentation is ...
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It's been quite a while since I last mentioned the excellent SAS Talks series. In the intervening period, the archive of talks has grown enormously. The archive of talks is a veritable treasure trove of SAS knowledge.
SAS Talks is principally a s...
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In a previous post, I mentioned a favourite interview question of mine: Stored Process Server vs Workspace Server - What's the difference? I thought I'd mention another. Outside of incidental information picked-up through your regular work, how do yo...
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In my previous posts, I've covered many aspects of DS2 (previous posts are listed at the bottom of this post). It's time to wrap up by offering a few more final details.
Whilst DS2 provides a wide range of data types, not all types are supported by all...
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Did I miss this? The proceedings of the SAS European User Group International (SEUGI, the European equivalent of SUGI and SGF) are now all online on the SAS Community web site. Papers from 1983 to the last event in 2007 are there.
Most of the pages we...
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Good news 1: SAS UK will be running Analytics 2013 in London on 19th and 20th June. This is part of a series of such conferences, its predecessor being held in Cologne, Germany last June. The 2012 conference included Data Mining, Forecasting,...
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Christmas approaches, I've opened 18 windows in the SAS Professionals advent calendar (without winning anything, yet), written most of my Christmas cards, and my mind is firmly focused on the remaining Christmas shopping. However, I've allowed my min...
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