The SAS Dummy
A SAS® blog for the rest of us![Job security through code obscurity](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-2.png)
Art Carpenter offers tremendous advice to SAS programmers who want to maximize their job security: make your programs impossible for others to read and understand. In his published papers, Art (in his tongue-in-cheek manner) presents practical examples for how to accomplish this. I'm afraid that with our new code formatter
![Hope for ugly programs](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-1.png)
Have you ever inherited a SAS program from a "gifted" SAS programmer? By "gifted", I mean a person who regards line feeds and white space as a waste of precious bytes, who knows that his program is worth the tremendous effort it might take to read and understand it, as
![Using Gmail to send a message via SAS Enterprise Guide](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-2.png)
You can use SAS Enterprise Guide to automate most aspects of queries, analytics, and reporting -- including sending e-mail notifications with the results. In this blog post, I'll show you how you can send these results and use Gmail as your e-mail provider. First, some background: SAS Enterprise Guide provides
![Thinking economically](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-3.png)
As I mentioned in a recent post, I've just completed reading Dear Undercover Economist by Tim Harford. I acquired a copy of Tim's book at the SAS Professionals Convention, and I was fortunate enough to meet Tim in person and have him sign the book. He impressed me as very
![Let's call the whole thing off](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-2.png)
What do you do when you and your spouse are both SAS users, but one of you likes to point-and-click and the other really likes to write SAS programs? Is it possible to share a SAS environment, or are these irreconcilable differences that can lead only to a nasty custody
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I'm using this post to share links to several SAS-related blogs created by others. This is me acting generous by sharing -- it's not me acting lazy by shirking an original post. Really. Datum Reparo! AnnMaria waves her SAS Enterprise Guide magic wand, utters a few (magic?) words, and makes