There are some situations where you need to create a new data item based on different conditions. To do this, you need to use the CASE statement available in the Expression Editor window. Watch SAS Instructor, Lynn Matthews, give a step-by-step tutorial. You can learn about this topic and more
It was my pleasure to sit down and talk with Education Director Eric Rossland to get the inside scoop on our fast track courses. This is an intense training format that is offered in the Business Intelligence, Data Management and Administration curricula. The courses cover a hefty amount of content
With limited time and budget, you can still thoroughly test SAS reports built in SAS BI Dashboard and SAS Web Report Studio by considering how all the tools were used to build the end report. An understanding of the functionality within each part of the chain from raw data to
So are you now dreaming big? Coming up with other ideas for how SAS Stored Processes can be leveraged in your installation of SAS? As I mentioned in last week's post, you could use OLAP cubes as a data source for your SAS Stored Process. Here is how I would
One of my new work friends says this frequently. But the statement is lost in his translation from Portuguese, it is not that he does not believe me, it is just that he has questions about how things happen so he can learn. I debate on which version of this
Wizard Harry Potter makes magic just waving his wand around and shouting out spells. Using SAS Enterprise Guide (and you are welcome to shout out your own commands too) you can create some magic, allowing the Stored Process Wizard to code for you. On Step 2, the "Include code for"
After some discussion with SAS Product Marketing yesterday, we devised this response to everyone's question about the Business Analytic differentiator that SAS provides. ********************************************************************************************************* Business Intelligence is one of the key components from SAS that ties into a suite of analytic techniques, information handling and performance infrastructures needed to deliver
Questions (or search strings) lead people to my blog or my email box on a daily basis and many of these are related to what SAS Stored Processes can or cannot do. Can a SAS Stored Process query an RDBMS? Can a SAS Stored Process create a data table? Could
Six user import and synchronization macros are available in the SAS Foundation directory, these are documented as available in creating programs to retrieve information and compare authentication provider (such as LDAP) account information with what is stored in SAS Metadata to then synchronize the two. Try this code in BASE
A common question really and one that I get after posting code like yesterday's All SAS Stored Process Locations Report. The neat trick is just to type METABROWSE in a BASE SAS command window. (There are two other commands: METACON and METAFIND. Has anyone got any tips on when those
