What SAS administrators should know about libraries, metadata, and SAS Enterprise Guide

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|June 21, 2011

We sometimes take it for granted, but the concept of the “SAS library” is just about one of the most awesome aspects of The SAS System. You can give your library a name (a library reference, or libref), tell the system how to get to your data (options on a [...]

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Top 10 head scratchers for DATA step programmers

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|April 22, 2011

When I encounter an ERROR, WARNING, or NOTE in my SAS log that I don’t understand, my first recourse is to ask my friend (we’ll call him “Google”) what it could mean. I copy the entire message (or at least 5 or 6 consecutive words from it) into the search [...]

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Tuning your Windows 2008 environment for SAS

Chris Hemedinger
Chris Hemedinger|October 8, 2010

If you’re an administrator of systems that run SAS, you have probably already read up on How to Maintain Happy SAS 9 Users. If not, go read that first. Now, are you looking to squeeze the best performance out of SAS on Microsoft Windows 2008 Server? Be sure to read [...]

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