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Technical tips and tricks from SAS instructors, authors and other SAS experts.![Free SAS Training Material clear.gif](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sastraining/files/2009/10/clear.gif)
Did you know that there is a wealth of SAS Training Material for free? I have this bookmarked for reference material and continued education. Free Tutorials: UPDATED URL (2009Aug03) http://support.sas.com/training/elearn/tutorials/ SAS Papers Online: http://support.sas.com/rnd/papers/ Users Group Proceedings: http://support.sas.com/events/sasglobalforum/previous/online.html
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I’ve never found a great user guide, not to say that one doesn’t exist. You should be able to schedule any type of executable/job like a batch file from using the Platform LSF client tools (packaged with the server tools). You can also use command line executables like bsub and
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The data table creation date is sometimes necessary, say in the footnote of your stored process. Included below is a sample to retrieve this date from the file system. /*Open the dataset*/ %let dsid=%sysfunc(open(sashelp.shoes)); data _null_; /*grab the CRDTE function*/ ddate=%sysfunc(attrn(&dsid;,CRDTE )); /*Format in DDMONYY*/ call symput('ddate', put(ddate, dtdate9.)); run;
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I have emailed this simple code up & down the east coast. My memory isnt as good as it use to be, so I also have a copy nearby to implement when onsite. This updates the metadata within the specified library (and delete tables/info if it no longer exists in
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Cross tabulations in SAS Web Report Studio don't work with just category/qualitative data. A measure is required. So how to count the number of records that exist in the group? Using the SASHELP.SHOES data table, we would like to count the number of subsidaries that exist within a region, or
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So you have installed the SAS System, and you can check what is licensed with the proc setinit command, but what if something hiccuped in the install. Or your supporting (I mean validating) someone else's install and you need to quickly see what is available? Included below is some 'found'