So are you now dreaming big? Coming up with other ideas for how SAS Stored Processes can be leveraged in your installation of SAS? As I mentioned in last week’s post, you could use OLAP cubes as a data source for your SAS Stored Process. Here is how I …
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I have doubts
One of my new work friends says this frequently. But the statement is lost in his translation from Portuguese, it is not that he does not believe me, it is just that he has questions about how things happen so he can learn. I debate on which version of…
SAS® Enterprise Guide: Best if Used by Date on Package
Some of us were raised in households where no food was ever wasted unless it was truly unsafe. “Just cut the edges off!” was heard in my house almost as often as the dreaded (but thrifty), “Put on a sweater if you’re cold!” As noble as it is …
Code wizards make the magic happen
Wizard Harry Potter makes magic just waving his wand around and shouting out spells. Using SAS Enterprise Guide (and you are welcome to shout out your own commands too) you can create some magic, allowing the Stored Process Wizard to code for you. On S…
And the difference between Business Intelligence and Business Analytics is …
After some discussion with SAS Product Marketing yesterday, we devised this response to everyone’s question about the Business Analytic differentiator that SAS provides. **********************************************************************************…
Read a Microsoft date-time value into a SAS date-time value
A colleague was recently working with a web service that supplies some date-time values using the Microsoft Windows internal representation. He called the web service to retrieve those values (along with other data) from SAS, and he needed convert these values to SAS date-time values. The Microsoft definition for a […]
Any SAS program can become a SAS Stored Process
Questions (or search strings) lead people to my blog or my email box on a daily basis and many of these are related to what SAS Stored Processes can or cannot do. Can a SAS Stored Process query an RDBMS? Can a SAS Stored Process create a data table? Co…
Why R is Hard to Learn
The open source R software for analytics has a reputation for being hard to learn. It certainly can be, especially for people who are already familiar with similar packages such as SAS, SPSS or Stata. Training and documentation that leverages … Continue reading →