Earlier today, Rick posted interesting information about which time of year the most babies are born, at least in the USA. I don’t have data nearly as extensive as what’s available at the NCHS, but I do have a sample of birthday records to compare against Rick’s findings. My sample […]
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Enabling OLAP drill-through to detail for web reports
I mentioned back in 2008 that Web Reports with OLAP source can drill-through to detail (or display the raw data records for the corresponding cross tabular cell) only after the source information map has drill-through to detail enabled. Well, there are…
A quick tour of SAS operators
Dear Miss SAS Answers, I want to understand the logic behind the answer to the following question: The following DATA step is submitted: data one; x=3; y=2; z=x**y; run; What should be the value of the variable z in the output data set? Will you please…
Google Reader bundles for SAS-related blogs
I use Google Reader to keep up with SAS-related conversations on the blogosphere. I thought it would be nice to share the lists of blogs that I follow as “shared bundles”. If you also use Google Reader, it will be very easy for you to add these bundles to […]
Editing and removing dashboard indicator frames
In BI Dashboard 4.3, you have the ability to edit or entirely remove the frame around an indicator. When in the dashboard edit screen, select the indicator and on the right hand side update the Object name with the frame title to display. When viewing …
The unlikely pedigree of sample data in SAS
We ship many sample data sets with SAS products. By using well-understood sample data sets, we can teach concepts or show off product features without distracting the audience/students with data collection or prep. At least, that’s the way it’s supposed to work. But occasionally the sample data can cause a […]
The Sudoku to GRID analogy
Co-written with Gordon Cox@gtcox76 Gordon’s 7-yr daughter asked him what he learned in class at SAS Campus a few weeks ago. The subject, even for many SAS geeks like us, can be hard to tackle. Gordon was learning all about SAS GRID architecture, impl…
XCMD and SAS 9.3: working together again
It’s been a well-known limitation for a long time. When you connect to a SAS session using SAS Enterprise Guide, shell commands (including X command, SYSTASK, and FILENAME PIPE) are off-limits because the default SAS invocation disables them. It does this by including -NOXCMD as a command-line option. This makes […]