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Jedi SAS Tricks: These aren’t the droids… Episode 2

We started out in Episode 1 cleaning and standardizing data from the Academy.  As you recall, Mr. Vader apparently had a attitude when making his entry in the database.  The original data looked like this: You can find the code for creating the orig…

How to open a SAS OLAP cube 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…

SAS Certification hits the big 4-0

The SAS Global Certification program concluded 2011 with a bang by awarding the 40,000th SAS credential.  Program growth has continued to accelerate ever since the 1999 launch, with a dramatic 53% growth in the total number of SAS certifications awar…

3 SAS Display Manager shortcuts

How we love shortcuts. Our life seems more efficient with them. I try to take the earlier train for a good parking spot that lets me exit early. Actually change that to any spot (my train station has tons of commuters with FEW parking spaces so gettin…

How do I export from SAS to Excel files: Let me count the ways

I have a love-hate relationship with spreadsheet data. I am interested in finding data to analyze, and if it arrives in the form of a spreadsheet, I’ll take it. And I like to deliver results and reports, but often my constituents ask for it as a spreadsheet that they can […]

Best practices for refreshing production OLAP cubes

Unlike prior versions of SAS OLAP technology, 9.2 provides more options for maintaining and refreshing OLAP cubes. With this comes some discussion about what each one does alone, and how pairing these techniques really provides SAS OLAP Server Administ…

Harness the power of the cloud for learning SAS

Since this is my first post on The SAS Training Post blog, please allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Kathy and I am an instructor at SAS Headquarters in Cary, NC.   I teach SAS courses in our on-campus training center, at regional training ce…

How to open a SAS table 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…