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A SAS® blog for the rest of us![A custom task to list and stop your SAS sessions](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2016/02/spawnedprocesses.png)
Last week I described how to use PROC IOMOPERATE to list the active SAS sessions that have been spawned in your SAS environment. I promised that I would share a custom task that simplifies the technique. Today I'm sharing that task with you. How to get the SAS Spawned Processes
![Sorting data in SAS: can you skip it? Linear Regression task](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2016/02/egreg.png)
TL;DR The next time that you find yourself writing a PROC SORT step, verify that you're working with the SAS Base engine and not a database. If your data is in a database, skip the SORT! The details: When to skip the PROC SORT step Many SAS procedures allow you
![Using the ODS statement to add layers in your ODS sandwich](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2015/11/odsex.png)
The ODS statement controls most aspects of how SAS creates your output results. You use it to specify the destination type (HTML, PDF, RTF, EXCEL or something else), as well as the details of those destinations: file paths, appearance styles, graphics behaviors, and more. The most common use pattern is
![Copy SAS variable names to the clipboard in SAS Enterprise Guide](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2015/10/copycolsmenu.png)
I recently met SAS user "CSC" at the Analytics 2015 conference. It might be generous to say that he's an avid user of SAS Enterprise Guide; it's probably more accurate to say that he's now accustomed to the tool and he's once again productive. But he still misses some features
![Using SAS DS2 to parse JSON](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2015/09/series.png)
Update 02Dec2016: Beginning with SAS 9.4 Maintenance 4, there is now a JSON libname engine. Read this new article to learn more -- you might prefer it to using DS2 for this task! Thanks to the proliferation of cloud services and REST-based APIs, SAS users have been making use of
![Copy data and column names from SAS Enterprise Guide](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2015/08/hdr1.png)
While I've often written about how to get your SAS data to Microsoft Excel in some automated way, I haven't really addressed what's probably the most frequently used method: copy and paste. SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 added a nifty little feature that makes copy-and-paste even more useful. The new "Copy