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Are 64-bit client applications twice as good as 32-bit applications?

In September 2010, I questioned whether you should care about native 64-bit client applications (or the lack thereof). At the time, SAS did not have a 64-bit version of SAS Enterprise Guide or SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. A skeptical reader might assume that I was just trying to make […]

Communities launch set for first week of April

5 …. 4 …. 3 …. 2…. 1 Launch!  We’ve set the launch date for the upgrade to Communities on SAS.  At 2pm ET, Wednesday, April 4th, we will take communities.sas.com off line.  The site may be unavailable for as much as 36 hours.  We hope that …

New certification program: SAS Versions Professional

Today, SAS announces a new addition to its global certification program: you can now become “SAS Versions”-certified. Over the past 36 years, SAS has delivered hundreds of software products to the business analytics marketplace. Each of those products has a version number. As new revisions are released, the combination of […]

Finding content, the new way

Do you ever wish that you could find that perfect piece of content again? It wasn’t that long ago, but you can’t find it anywhere. Most of head straight to a search box when we start hunting for content.  Search doesn’t always work if you can’t rememb…

SAS communities are growing and changing

I don’t have first hand experience with painful growth spurts because it seems to be a phenomenon experienced mostly by boys in their early teens. I’ve heard stories about kids who are visibly taller in the morning than they were when they went to bed …

What’s in a name – SQL Join or SET?

Did that set off a trigger for you? It did for my SAS SQL 1: Essentials class, packed with SQL and SAS programmers alike.  To clarify matters I pulled up some examples to help get the differences quickly. Set operators and Joins are similar in that th…

Improving on a SAS programming pattern

Earlier this week I described a common programming pattern in the SAS macro language. The pattern sets up a loop for processing each distinct value of a classification variable. The program uses the PROC SQL SELECT INTO feature to populate SAS macro variables. The effect: you can roll your own […]