(SESUG2009 Paper Preview) As I mentioned so many years ago (check my 2005 post out "The great analogy of SAS BI Products"), SAS offers a wide range of products for various users to get what they need and do what they must do. Due to this, I relate the various

Last week was incredible! The amount of activity from training, supporting and related system administration kept me very busy. The next few posts are my backlog of findings & tidbits. My boss was running into a problem with using a SAS Task from the SAS Add-in to Microsoft Office Excel

I have been attending a quality conference this week & found a gentleman who wrote 20,000 lines of VB code to allow users to generate graphs through an Excel GUI interface. After the presentation on his Visual Basic analytic system, I approached him to obtain the detail of his 8

There has been a lot of confusion at my company on what all of these different products from SAS are about. However, during a training session yesterday I was able to convey the variations of the SAS products by creating an analogy with Television stations and products. This gave the

MS Excel limits cells to 910 characters in length. The next version of SAS Add-In to Microsoft Office (AMO) addresses this issue by truncating records & giving the user a warning message, however what do you do with users today? Answer: Truncate the format & informat in a SAS Data