Running SAS Tasks on one column of data in Excel currently generates an error message. Highlight the column - by using CTRL-SHIFT-END - and then run the SAS Task..
Earlier in the year, I attempted to convert to a SAS Stored Process a SAS IntrNet program that used statements such as: data _null_; set datatable; put 'html code here' variable item; run; However, it doesn't work when simply removing the SAS IntrNet headers (such as options, and ods html
Well, I had a few users this week who wanted to access a print out of one record in the database. Fortunetly, they all know the primary key - so the query was really simple. However, to make it extremely easy for users, I didn't want to link to another
Running a stored process (or STP) is a SWEET thing! All of my users are using the limited number I have made available, and I'm sure many new STPs will be written as soon as the users realize how easily they can be created. When first writing an STP for
A few of the SAS AMO users in my facility (including me) have run into problems around SAS's interation with the normal.dot file. SAS Add-in to Microsoft Office uses the normal.dot as a performance improvement mechanism. SAS stores toolbar and menu information into normal.dot to keep from loading every time
Last week was incredible! The amount of activity from training, supporting and related system administration kept me very busy. The next few posts are my backlog of findings & tidbits. My boss was running into a problem with using a SAS Task from the SAS Add-in to Microsoft Office Excel
Enterprise Guide has a wonderful OLAP Viewer if you don't/can't use the web stuff. I went to the SAS Course 'Creating and Exploiting OLAP Using the SAS System' which has in the Course Notes some great steps on using EG for OLAP Viewing. Basically, the 'Tasks by Category' menu has
BISUG September News Article highlights the new SAS BI-ogsource! Providing a high-level summary of what the Blog's purpose and vision are, it also provides more information about the Blog creator Angela Hall and her employer Tekelec. BISUG is a great resource for anyone looking to use SAS BI products with
When developing the business intelligence measures, you have to be entirely cognizant of the behaviors you could promote. For instance, in measuring and setting business objectives for number of defects per line of code, developers could write more lines of code to reduce the calculated result or they could document
I have been attending a quality conference this week & found a gentleman who wrote 20,000 lines of VB code to allow users to generate graphs through an Excel GUI interface. After the presentation on his Visual Basic analytic system, I approached him to obtain the detail of his 8
