Today was "career day" in my daughter's 3rd grade classroom. A few privileged parents were invited to attend and answer questions about their professions, press-conference style. Among those on a panel of nine parents, the panelists that saw the most action included the Dog Trainer, the Duke Life Flight Nurse,
If you deploy the SAS 9 environment on Windows, you may have multiple SAS processes running on a single box (metadata process, OLAP server, multiple workspace servers). Windows Task Manager doesn't provide a great way to distinguish one sas.exe process from another, but Process Explorer does. Process Explorer lets you
In the Kalevala the God of the Forest is called Tapio. The Kalevala, also known as the land of heroes, is the national epic of Finland and is not only an extremely important work to the Finns but also an important contribution to world literature. For example, the meter in
This January 2007 report from eWeek states that specialized skill shortages will swell IT salaries. According to that article, "demand in the software development area will include Business Objects, Java, [Microsoft] developers, SAS programmers and systems architects." (Bold added by me.) I guess their crystal ball is pretty good, because
When developing the business intelligence measures, you have to be entirely cognizant of the behaviors you could promote. For instance, in measuring and setting business objectives for number of defects per line of code, developers could write more lines of code to reduce the calculated result or they could document
