Last Friday morning I took a meeting with SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. Despite the hassle, I was happy to rearrange my busy schedule to squeeze him in. Ha! Just a little joke there about my inflated sense of importance! Actually, the meeting was part of a regular series called "Conversations
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![How to search your SAS Enterprise Guide project files using automation](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2012/06/egpsearch.png)
If you are like many SAS Enterprise Guide users, you've amassed a large collection of project files (EGP files) that contain important content: programs, logs, notes, results, and more. However, to most tools and processes, the EGP file is opaque. That is, you can't see what's inside of it unless
![Top gear for SAS Professionals: Knowledge!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2012/06/londoneye.jpg)
It's been two years since my first trip to SAS UK for the SAS Professionals Convention. That was also my first trip to the UK, ever. I was pretty naive back then and didn't know what to expect from this strange land and its people. I was shown tremendous hospitality
Back in 2009, I announced that SAS was developing a version of its business analytics platform for use on the Nintendo Wii. I think I gave our legal department a heart attack with this news, until they realized that I had posted it on April 1. At SAS Global Forum
![Query the Windows registry within your SAS program](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-1.png)
On the SAS-L mailing list, a participant posed this question (paraphrased): How can I tell which date format my Windows session is using: European format (with day first) versus USA format (with month first)? I'm reading in output from a Windows file listing, and need to know how to interpret
![Using PROC SQL to get the schema of a MySQL database](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2012/05/schemashots_sm.png)
It's Friday, and on SAS Voices they are posting fun stuff about dogs who work at SAS. I'm posting about PROC SQL and MySQL. You tell me - which of us knows how to ring in the weekend with style? I've been working with MySQL data sources lately, and SAS/ACCESS
![How much time will your process flow take to run? How long did the task take?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2012/05/howlong_task.png)
SAS users, by definition, do not embrace the mysterious. That's one of the main reasons that they use SAS: to demystify some data or process. And so, when you (as a SAS user) have gone to the trouble of designing a process flow in SAS Enterprise Guide, you like to
![Using Windows PowerShell to view your SAS data dictionary](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2012/05/readtables_ps.png)
In a previous post I showed how you can use Windows PowerShell (with the SAS Local Data Provider) to create a SAS data set viewer. This approach doesn't require that you have SAS installed, and allows you to read or export the records within a SAS data set file. In
![The top gotchas when moving to 64-bit SAS for Windows](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
Many SAS customers are quickly adopting 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows, and they are pleased-as-punch when they find a 64-bit version of SAS to run on it. They waste no time in deploying the new version, only to find that a few things don't work quite the same as they
![The makeup of SAS Global Forum imagine what it be like *without* makeup](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2012/04/techtalk2_img.png)
Question: What do John Travolta, Gina Davis, and I all have in common? (I mean, besides the obvious fact that we are all awesome dancers.) Answer: We have all had makeup applied by artist Roxie Stice. I was the host for two SAS Tech Talks, which were broadcast via Livestream