In my last post, I promised a series of tips on where to stay, what to eat, and what to do if you come to Cary for SAS training. In this segment, I'll cover the logistics of arrival and lodging. For those of you awaiting dining and entertainment information, I'm
I don’t know what you did for the Memorial Day weekend, but I went to Boston to staff a booth at the Association for Psychological Science conference. I went to talk to university professors about the SAS Global Academic Program and SAS OnDemand for Academics software, which will soon be
We're live from F2010, SAS' premier business forecasting conference. Professionals from dozens of industries are gathering at our headquarters in Cary to discuss the latest technologies and methodologies around forecasting. We caught up with authors Mike Gilliland and Charles Chase as they discussed their forecasting books with us. Enjoy their
Interested in adding a group of users into Metadata w/o Management Console? Included is an example of how to add one user: PROC METADATA SERVER="my_sas_srv_name" PORT=8561 USERID="sasadm@saspw" PASSWORD="xxxxxxxx" PROTOCOL=BRIDGE in="<AddMetadata> <Metadata> <Person Desc='Manager of clinical studies.' Name='Joe E. Doe' Title='Manager of Clinical Studies'> </Person> </Metadata> <Reposid>A0000001.A5VLFKMC</Reposid> <NS>SAS</NS> <Flags>268435456</Flags> <Options/> </AddMetadata>";
The July 2-for-1 SAS training discount is a limited-time offer (in the U.S.) allowing customers to bring a colleague with them to a training class for free, giving companies the chance to train more than one person at a time. For research analysts Chris Cable and Yelena McElwain from Nathan
Contributed by Paul Allison, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania I'm happy to announce that the second edition of my book Survival Analysis Using SAS: A Practical Guide has just been published by the SAS Institute. When the first edition was published in 1995, my goal was to provide an
Within each report you can right click on the table, choose properties, and modify the number of rows to display. However is there a way to GLOBALLY modify the default maximum amount? The answer is yes with the required modification occuring within the web deployment area. WebReportStudioProperties.xml (version 9.2) has a section
I think this blog would be so much more literate, if I started it with a classic opening line, like “Call me Ishmael” or “riverrun, past Eve and Adams”. Those are the opening lines of Melville’s Moby-Dick and Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, respectively. In Finnegans Wake, Joyce meant for the book
When you travel as much as a typical SAS instructor, you get to be an expert on hotels, restaurants and entertainment. Anyone can figure out where to eat or what to do in downtown Chicago or in Manhattan, but it takes a dedicated traveler to show you where the action
I love a good collaborative project. Recently, I had the good fortune to work with a global team of Business Intelligence experts to create a new SAS certification exam for “BI Content Development”. Our team spanned 4 continents, worked in 6 timezones and represented a cross section of job functions
