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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…

Promoting SAS BI Dashboard content

If you are unable to export BI Dashboard Content the BI Dashboard Logical types was not installed on the system running SAS Management Console. Update this by following these steps Run the software install from the SAS Depot (mine is located at C:\SAS …

Day One at SAS Analytics 2011

Day one of SAS’ Analytics 2011 conference is in the books and wow, what a great opening day. As I mentioned in my post from yesterday, Anaytics 2011 is SAS’ analytics conference and covers all areas of analytics, including forecasting, data mining,…

Greetings from Analytics 2011

Hello everyone. My name is Jerry Oglesby and I’m the Sr. Director of SAS’ Global Academic and Certification Program and the co-chair of SAS’ 14th annual analytics conference, Analytics 2011. For those of you joining us in Orlando starting today (…

Your input is important

I’m Eric Rossland, the Curriculum Manager for SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Training. We have recently updated our courses to reflect the 4.3 releases of the different BI client applications. We would like your help in determining when we shou…

Poetry on our own terms

Within the SAS documentation there must be thousands of unique words.  But eleven words occur more than any others within the SAS documentation corpus: SAS, data, statement, option, value, set, variable, value, PROC, model, table. This is according to one of our staff terminologists, Vicki Leary, who helps to keep our use of these words consistent and clear.  Vicki challenged our […]

Become super-efficient at starting & stopping services via scripting

Which would you rather do? Click stop (or start) over and over, while waiting in between the services to make sure everything is up and running … OR … click one button and go have lunch? Honestly I prefer the lunch option. (And for administrators, …