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Make a name for yourself at SAS Global Forum

Celebrity fame (I’m told) is overrated. Do you really want hordes of people to recognize you in the shopping mall or while you wait at a red light? Of course you don’t. And that’s why I advise you to never win the American Idol competition (nor should you lose with […]

SAS Analytics 2011 Conference Series

The SAS Analytics 2011 Conference Series concluded with more than 1,000 people in attendance from 409 companies and 29 countries. With numerous learning and networking opportunities, those who attended the event in Orlando, Florida last month walked aw…

Retail therapy-the SAS way

It’s mid-afternoon.  Day 2 of the PRG2 class. Students return satiated from lunch. Some slipped into this course without taking PRG1 so they missed out on some basics. I’m trying to explain how SAS thinks. I use slides, draw pix, do everything exc…

Using Windows PowerShell to report on your SAS Enterprise Guide project files

This blog post is a “mashup” of a couple of my previous posts, combining the lessons to create something brand new that I hope you will find useful.  First, let’s review what we know: SAS Enterprise Guide supports a scriptable object model, which allows you to write scripts or programs […]

Adding format catalogs without loosing others

As I mentioned when creating a user-defined format for Information Maps in a prior post custom or user-defined formats can be created and stored quickly in the default format catalog for all Business Intelligence products within “Lev1\SASApp\SASEnviron…

Revisiting the starting file location for Enterprise Guide

Years ago and a seemingly far galaxy away, I wrote about how to modify 9.1.3 to start Enterprise Guide users in a different location for the File folder. By default, the user only can access their personal SAS Temporary File. Why change this? I would p…

Day Two Recap from Analytics 2011

Well Analytics 2011 is officially a wrap. (OK, that’s not completely true, we still have 3 days of post-conference training left to deliver to around 300 attendees.) Now that we’ve reached the end of the event, I can say the conference was a tremen…