The SAS Dummy
A SAS® blog for the rest of us![Doing more with SAS Enterprise Guide automation](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2012/04/egautoapi.png)
Have you ever selected File->Schedule Project or Schedule->Process Flow in SAS Enterprise Guide? Are you curious about what magic these actions will trigger? Here's what happens: SAS Enterprise Guide creates a VBScript program that contains the instructions to start SAS Enterprise Guide, load your project, run your project or flow,
I'm sorry to say that there will be no "Dummies around Me" smart phone app for SAS Global Forum this year. That means that if you want to catch up with me, you'll have to do it the old-fashioned way: plan to be in the same place that I am,
![Are 64-bit client applications twice as good as 32-bit applications?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-1.png)
In September 2010, I questioned whether you should care about native 64-bit client applications (or the lack thereof). At the time, SAS did not have a 64-bit version of SAS Enterprise Guide or SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office. A skeptical reader might assume that I was just trying to make
![Improving on a SAS programming pattern](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2012/03/macroview_varcount.png)
Earlier this week I described a common programming pattern in the SAS macro language. The pattern sets up a loop for processing each distinct value of a classification variable. The program uses the PROC SQL SELECT INTO feature to populate SAS macro variables. The effect: you can roll your own
![Implement BY processing for your entire SAS program](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2012/03/justhybrid.png)
How to write a SAS macro program to repeat your SAS processing for each value of a BY grouping variable.
A few years ago I had the privilege of presenting the last technical paper at SAS Global Forum. This year, conference chair Andy Kuligowski asked me to go one better than that, and present a talk at the official Closing Session. What will I talk about? That's a mystery (maybe