A good chunk of the SAS year revolves around SAS Global Forum. Pre-conference, everyone is busy polishing presentations and planning meetings. Post-conference is the best—attendees come back to Cary with heads full of customer ideas to implement and notebooks full of contacts to follow up on. One user's request found its way to my Inbox last week when a coworker asked me to review a list of SAS administration resources.
My coworker's note reminded me that new SAS adminstrators join the ranks every month so it seems like a good time to compile a list of online resources. If I've overlooked your favorite, please share with everyone by commenting on this post.
For connecting with other SAS administrators, there are several good options:
- SAS Deployment Community on support.sas.com
- Several LinkedIn groups but a couple of familiar ones are SAS Administration Team and SAS Architects/Administrators/Implementation Specialist
- SAS Blogs tagged for administrators such as the Wednesday series you're reading on SAS Users Groups as well as the SAS administration topics on The SAS Dummy.
- Blogs hosted by SAS users such as Paul Homes' platformadmin.com and Andrew Ratcliffe's NOTE: blog.
If you're responsible for installing and maintaining a SAS installation, you will find most of the information necessary to accomplish your tasks on these support.sas.com sites:
- System Requirements
- Install Center
- Third-Party Software Support
- System Administration topic in Samples & SAS Notes
- Migration Focus Area
Prefer videos? SAS Talks On Demand offers several videos for the SAS administrator.
- SAS® 9.3 Features and Functionality for Platform Administration
- Best Practices in SAS® Administration
- Best Practices for Configuring Your IO Subsystem for SAS®9 Applications
And, of course, don't forget training and documentation:
- Courses and training paths for the administrator
- SAS Global Certification program for platform administrators
- Product documentation for the SAS Intelligence platform
Please let us know how SAS can continue to support this important role.
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Hello ,
I want one solution about forecast project is locked so i kill the pid and still project is locked so Restart the sever . but Every time cant restart the server so what to do ... please help me Regarding the project
looking for sas admin trainer
Thank you for reading our blog!
If you are looking for personal or corporate training, SAS Training offers courses and certification for SAS administrators. http://support.sas.com/training/us/paths/admin.html
You may also contact your local SAS office for training offered in your region. They may also have a list of consultants or contractors who can help.
Christina
Actually Iam looking to learn sas admin....
Sridhar yadav
Sridhar
The answer to your question on the best way to learn SAS administration depends very much on your educational background and your experience.
If you read the blog posts referenced in the post "SAS administrator roles and responsibilities: a recap", you’ll see that the answer depends on your knowledge and experience as a general systems administrator as well as your knowledge of SAS software. Experienced SAS administrators will tell you they’ve acquired their skills and knowledge through a combination of formal training (paid instruction), informal training (online or other resources) and hands-on experience.
http://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2014/01/01/sas-administrator-roles-and-responsibilities-a-recap/
You can find more information about SAS administrator training offered by SAS instructors at this URL:
http://support.sas.com/training/us/paths/admin.html
Christina
Hello,
Do i need to get training from others by paying them or can i learn it through internet.Could you people help me in this??
Thanks in advance..
Sridhar Yadav
Does the metadata layer capture the number of login's per user? And how can I get at it? I have been using the metadata browser but would like to write a query to extract this type of information.
Bob
I’ve forwarded your question to a couple of experts who may be able to help. They felt the answer would be of interest to other SAS administrators and worthy of a separate blog post. Please look for their answer in Wednesday’s post (July 24).
Thanks for asking!
Christina
Hi Christina,
That's a great list of resources for admins. Thanks for mentioning my blog too! 🙂
I'd also recommend reading Angela Hall's Real BI For Real Users blog and Tricia Aanderud's BI Notes blog as they both post articles on SAS BI admin topics too.
Another resource I find really useful is the collection of papers from the SAS Global Forum, in particular the Systems Architecture and Administration section.
Cheers
Paul
Thanks for three great suggestions, Paul!