Help, I lost my SAS server!

Edoardo Riva
Edoardo Riva|June 14, 2013

Like most SAS users and administrators, you usually don’t know where your backend SAS servers are located–probably in some basement server farm or perhaps another building or even another town. But I’m sure you do know that your SAS client application must have a way to reach services running on [...]

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Don’t overlook release management

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|June 5, 2013

John Heaton is no stranger to the often frustrating process of migrating code between environments after software updates. While release management and version control may often be afterthoughts, Heaton cautions that ignoring them could be “time consuming and disastrous should errors occur.” His winning SAS Global Forum paper SAS® Release [...]

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Securing SAS installations--some recent papers

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|May 30, 2013

Reading Jan Bigalke’s SAS Global Forum paper on “Hardening a SAS® Installation on a multi tier installation on Linux” reminded me of baking apple stack cake with my mother.  Neither is a simple project.  Both are time-consuming, and their success depends on how skillfully you handle each layer. Data security [...]

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SAS administrator connections and resources

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|May 22, 2013

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 [...]

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Pre-assign SAS libraries? If so, which method?

Gregory Nelson
Gregory Nelson|May 15, 2013

As we have seen my previous post “Seeing SAS data through metadata”, there is a fundamental difference between accessing a SAS library using a physical reference or a metadata reference to that library. By now, you should now be an expert on the nuances of physical references to SAS data [...]

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Taking business intelligence mobile

Waynette Tubbs
Waynette Tubbs|May 8, 2013

In today’s fast-paced, jam-packed work day, many people answer email and read reports after business hours. And more and more, they’re doing those things on a smartphone or tablet. How are your users accessing and using your reports? Statistics South Africa has found that their end-users would prefer a mobile [...]

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SAS Global Forum: Focus on SAS administration

Christina Harvey
Christina Harvey|April 17, 2013

If you’re a SAS administrator and haven’t registered or planned your agenda for SAS Global Forum 2013, here are a few key happenings to tempt you! tags: SAS Administrators, SAS Global Forum

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Hiring a SAS administrator? 12 questions to ask

Wendy McHenry
Wendy McHenry|April 10, 2013

I have been on both sides of the table during an interview to hire a SAS administrator. I’ve been hired as a SAS administrator, and I have hired SAS administrators. Today, I work with SAS customers to help them find the best software for their business needs. I get asked- [...]

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Planning for SAS use on solid state drives

Margaret Crevar
Margaret Crevar|April 3, 2013

SAS software benefits from the high performance of solid state drives (SSD), whether it is in the form of flash memory cards or hard-drive form-factor SSDs. The following general points should be considered when planning SSD storage for SAS usage: tags: hardware, SAS Administrators

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Finding audit bliss in SAS Web Report Studio

Simon Williams
Simon Williams|March 27, 2013

For many organizations, having traceability for members of staff accessing and leveraging customer data is a key requirement. There is the obvious security focus when leadership teams think about traceability, but there are additional uses for audit data within the organization: Using it to identify potentially broken work practices and [...]

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