As a Master Chief in US Navy submarines, one of my favorite sayings was “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.” I’ve always had difficulty solidly learning new programming techniques in a traditional class…
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A time-saving coding tip: leverage the SAS macro facility
Hi! My name is Jim. I’m a SAS instructor based in Irvine, CA. I spend a lot of time each year teaching students in CA and across the United States how to program in SAS and how to master the SAS macro facility. In case you haven’t taken one…
Do I have to choose between Excel and SAS?
This question came up while helping my presales colleague with a client’s question: “Is Microsoft Excel in direct competition with SAS?” Not really. I like to think of SAS as partnering with Excel. Because of the following Excel benefits and its …
Celebrate your own free copy of my book "Building Business Intelligence Using SAS"
Well, we can’t really afford to give everyone a free copy of the Building Business Intelligence Using SAS: Content Development Examples. But copies will be presented to two randomly selected participants of today’s AllAnalytics.com eChat! Then you can …
SAS Report: You’re soaking in it
Do you want your report to look good on the web, or to look good when you print it? Pick one. Before the SAS Report file format, that was the choice that you faced. HTML is perfect for the web browser. It’s easy to scroll through tables, apply an attractive […]
To be or not to be, testing your cube’s existence
Unlike BASE SAS tables, OLAP cubes must exist in within the metadata in order to access from any of the OLAP Viewers. In addition to having some metadata OLAP cubes have a physical file structure presence (at least for MOLAP/HOLAP because it’s a differ…
How to open a SAS information map in SAS Web Report Studio
Business users of SAS are finding the Web Report Studio capabilities incredibly beneficial for viewing, creating, and sharing reports on the Web. The easy-to-use query and reporting software provides a point-and-click interface for building reports f…
Help! I Have Too Many Variables for a Cube!
The following email landed in my inbox this morning and it is such a good question that I decided to share because it comes up often. (If you are the sender, thank you for sending this message and pulling me out of a no-blogging-recently slump!) Dear …