The SAS Dummy
A SAS® blog for the rest of us![Lengths and formats in SAS: the long and short of it](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2007/11/174779502-702x336.jpg)
What's the difference between LENGTH and FORMAT in a SAS data set? This article shares the answer, with examples.
![How to work with emojis in SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2024/07/205182187-702x336.jpg)
Emojis are showing up in our data. Here's what you need to know when working with emojis in your SAS code.
![Through the years: SAS Enterprise Guide versions](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2020/08/egversions2024-1-702x336.png)
My colleague Rick Wicklin maintains a nifty chart that shows the timeline of SAS releases since Version 8. A few of you asked if I could post a similar chart for SAS Enterprise Guide. Here it is. Like Rick, I used new features in SAS 9.4 to produce this chart
![What's next for SAS 9 and SAS Enterprise Guide?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2023/09/LVE29847_2-702x336.jpg)
SAS announces continued support and releases for SAS 9 and a new role for SAS Enterprise Guide with SAS Viya.
![Visualized: US Currency in circulation, past and present](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/pctval-700x336.png)
This phenomenon has been in the news recently, so I've updated this article that I originally published in 2017. The paper currency in circulation in the US is mostly $100 bills. And not just by a little bit -- these account for 34% of the notes by denomination and nearly
![SAS knows it's a leap year. Do you?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2016/02/leapyearfeb.png)
How to calculate a leap year in SAS - the easy way!