Growing up in rural West Tennessee, I (sadly enough) experienced the world through my favorite television shows. These same programs influenced my career choices. At various times I was sure I was going to be a witty ER doc like Howie Mandel on St. Elsewhere or a gruff but beautiful
BI/EBI SAS deployed Web Applications actually are .ear files residing in the deploy_sas folder of jBoss. This could create a delay in reboot time if memory on the server is limited. Included are the steps to deploy these .ear files into full folders that dramatically improve the restart time of
I have submitted a SAS User Group paper for the Seattle Conference in 2010 but thought I'd go ahead and provide a couple of quick notes for those of you going ahead with it now :) If default authorization, small number of users & databases, no BI content (WRS, InfoMaps,
SAS stated that the Information Map Portal hasn't changed much since 9.1.3, but there are a couple of really well placed modifications. Included are my notes on the benefits of moving to Portal 4.2: No xythos - using SAS Content Server now Sticky Pages renamed to Persistent Additional Reference: What's
Read how Stacey and Christine are working to join the ranks of the certified (and not the certifiable, we hope). I'm sure that PROC CERTIFY (as they've dubbed it) is an example of one proc that won't end with a QUIT; but with a RUN;
Most modern programmer text editors allow you to see multiple views of the document you're working on. The SAS program editor within SAS Enterprise Guide is no exception, although we've done a pretty good job of hiding this feature. Read on and learn how to easily "divide and conquer" your
Becoming SAS Certified is no easy task. Don't you have the fondest memories of studying for the SAT or GRE? Late nights poring over practice exams, running through vocabulary flashcards with study partners, and attending prep courses. What I remember most was the absolute rush of relief upon finishing these
New jBoss installs might store excessive logging due to a malformed comment in log4j.properties that threw JBoss into a debug state on startup. There was a comment tag in the jboss-log4j.xml file something like !-- -------------Add new line here à All of the additional hyphens were causing the SASServer1 to
Would you buy something that doesn’t have demonstrable Return on Investment? Of course you would! Whether you realize it or not, you do this every time you buy software. There is no proven ROI. Maybe this is just a pet peeve of mine. Maybe I care too much about cause
After completing several SAS 9.2 BI and EBI installations, I must profess my love for the improvements: greener! - cds shipped by customer request only, default is Electronic Download faster! less manual steps fewer system user accounts many more sample plans available for more 'standard' installs significant reduction in post-install
I was recently reviewing our most popular samples that we publish on support.sas.com, and I came across this one showing unusual uses for the ROUND function. As well as gathering lots of visits, this sample has also earned a very respectable rating by you, the readers. I note that we
OK, maybe that's stretching things a bit. But we are proud to announce that we have just published two new JMP books at the same time (and, of course, we've already picked out their names) --- Analyzing and Interpreting Continuous Data Using JMP: A Step-by-Step Guide, by José Ramírez and
SAS Enterprise Guide uses HTML as the output default format. So for converted projects in SAS EG 4.2, there is a possible situation where the reports fail to view. Change the default back to HTML (or deploy SAS EG 4.2 with that format option selected). The option in 4.2 is
You can utilize IIS on your standard web server to connect to the jBoss SAS Installation. There are three steps that must be followed to the T: 1. On IIS Machine A. Create a file location for the dll and properties files. (This location via be referenced via a virtual
Twitter is an EXCELLENT resource to get SAS friends' feedback on issues. Take for instance the tweet yesterday from @CaroleJesse concerning EG 4.1 issues after installing 9.2 on the Server. @hollandnumerics responded that a command line step could be run to register the 9.2 system. See the dialog below and
Contributed by Charles Chase, Business Enablement Manager for SAS's Manufacturing and Supply Chain Global Practice As readers of books we rarely consider their origin. A book just magically appears on the bookshelf. We decide whether it is worth reading and then either buy it or look for another. Think about
I’m back from a week of vacation in Michigan and bursting with new topics, but will have to get to those next week (still playing catch-up in my day job). I do, however, have the pleasure to announce the publication of a new book by my friend and colleague Charlie
This is one of the coolest uses of SAS I've seen: optimizing school reassignments. I spoke with paper coauthor Rob Pratt before SAS Global Forum this year about this topic. I found the project's origin interesting: CEO Jim Goodnight was chatting with the Wake County Schools superintendant at a cocktail
We just wrapped up our work at the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, where over 6,000 statisticians convened in Washington, DC. The theme for this year’s meeting was Statistics: From Evidence to Policy. Since I started working with SAS Press, I’ve made sure that JSM was one of the events that
As an acquisitions editor in SAS Press, it has been my pleasure over the years to work with many hard-working, dedicated, and talented authors. Three of those authors have teamed up to write the long-awaited update to Output Delivery System: The Basics by Lauren Haworth, which was published in the
Have you ever submitted a SAS program or query only to immediately regret it? It usually happens just as you finish clicking the mouse or lift your finger from the F8 key: you realize that your program has a horrible flaw that's going to make it run for hours or
The SAS internal discussion boards are always full of fascinating topics, some of which are even decipherable to a non-Ph.D. in statistics like me. A recent topic involved how to calculate the benefits of good forecasting software, and my colleague Robin Way offered an interesting perspective that he allowed me
My prerogative has always been to share my knowledge with the entire SAS user community (hence this blog & all my SAS papers). For an approach to supporting the entire SAS Server Architecture, I presented a paper at the SGF 2009 conference and created a Wiki page in SASCommunity.org to
Personally, I don’t get Twitter. I have an account (mvgilliland) for anyone interested in not hearing any tweets from me. I follow a few people and have a few followers (including some that aren't porn bots) -- but what is the point? Does anyone really care that I’m out hanging
From SAS/ACCESS (for working with databases) to SAS/ZODIAC* (for cranking out horoscopes), you'll be able to learn all you need to know about SAS products with the new product pages on support.sas.com. As of today, we're featuring just a handful of popular products within these pages. The product pages serve
In a previous posting I showed an example of how you can use the GKPI procedure in SAS 9.2 to create dashboard-quality charts. Here's a more formal sample that you can use, including a custom task that you can use in SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 to point-and-click your way the
Can a crowd of thousands produce better answers than a few experts? That's the question that Sir Francis Galton asked in the 19th century and sought to statistically prove, one way or another. I recently watched an entertaining and informative segment about Galton and the so-called "wisdom of crowds" on
Geoff posted a nice article on his blog about how you can read and write Microsoft Excel spreadsheets programmatically from within SAS, without using DDE. I've previously written about how it's difficult to continue using DDE from SAS when you have a distributed environment (SAS on a server machine, Excel
We talk a lot here about how we’re using social networking tools such as Twitter and Facebook to publicize our books. I was a late comer to these applications and, like a lot of people of my generation, came to them with a high degree of skepticism. I won’t say
There is actually many more PROMPT types available in SAS 9.2 than the prior version. Including ranges for date, time, text, and numeric! The 'Date Range' type specifically replaces the workarounds necessary in a prior version. (See these workarounds in post: Creating a Date Range Prompt in Web Report Studio
