In honor of World Statistics Day, I've been asking fans of the SAS Publishing Facebook page questions about statistics for the last two weeks. We've received lots of fun and interesting responses which I'd like to share here on Open Mic. If you're interested in celebrating with us today, join
When creating an OLAP Cube from a Star Schema table, the Dimensions / Hierarchies created must be free of all blanks. This is because the name is used as a table alias in the SQL Join. The obvious error in the resulting code example below: proc sql; create table geography
Was assisting an individual with an issue on the SAS Discussion Forum and we discovered why some users would not get the prompt to save/view excel content in excel rather than in the web browser. Essentially, the file type options were different for these users. This was causing users to
The folks in charge of our SAS customer support Web site, support.sas.com are working on a new and improved home page. Who better to evaluate this Web page than you? You can view the beta page now and take a survey to tell us what you think. One new section
Our last post, "Getting the most out of user group events," was a first for us here at Open Mic, as it was contributed by a SAS user, Dr. Bruce Stegner. I'm continually impressed by the passion, dedication and knowledge of our user base and would love to see more
Contributed by Bruce Stegner, Ph.D, Executive Consultant I am new to this blog and to social networking via electrons. I have been to a fair number of SAS gatherings and have been reflecting on various aspects of them. I thought it might be a good idea to focus on people
Contributed by Christine Kjellberg, Marketing Specialist and Joel Wilson, Systems Administrator As Stacey and I have mentioned in previous posts, we have expanded our study group to include another co-worker, Joel Wilson. The three of us meet weekly to review and discuss all things certification-related. Today’s installment of Open Mic
Hi all. Just a quick note to point out a recent certification discussion on the SAS Training Facebook page. If you haven't become a fan of SAS Training, maybe now is the time? It's yet another great community to chat with your fellow SAS users and find additional training resources.
In this next installment of our video series, SAS Authors Answer, I asked our authors what tips they could offer to new SAS users. If you're new to SAS, be sure to also check out our new user page that is a great introduction to our books, documentation and newsletters.
Terry Barham, the SAS Global Certification Program Manager talks about all the exams which will be offered next month in Las Vegas at the M2010 Data Mining Conference and shares some advice for taking a SAS certification exam. Hint: there's no shortcut!
