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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![SAS Viya 3.2: Visual Data Builder](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/07/Visual-Data-Builder1-702x336.png)
In SAS Viya 3.2, SAS Visual Data Builder provides a mechanism for performing simple, self-service data preparation tasks for SAS Visual Analytics or other applications. SAS Visual Data Builder is NOT an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) or data quality tool. You may still need one of those tools to
![Using multiple server contexts in SAS Visual Analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/06/Using-multiple-server-contexts-in-SAS-Visual-Analytics3-702x298.png)
As a technical consultant for SAS, I have the privilege of meeting with SAS customers, learning more about how they use our software, and then helping them solve their problems. Recently, a client of mine was having trouble finding a way to implement the use of multiple application servers in
![New rules for authorization in SAS Viya](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/06/SAS-VIYA2-702x336.png)
In this blog post I’d like to explore how to create a custom group in SAS Viya to restrict access to functionality. To illustrate my points, we will create a report developers custom group and ensure that only users of that group can create reports and analysis in SAS Visual Analytics.
![The SAS Visual Analytics 8.1 Data Pane: Creating Calculations and Aggregations](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/06/Self-Service-Import-in-SAS-Viya1-702x336.png)
In my last blog, we examined the data pane in SAS Visual Analytics 8.1. That blog discussed how to have the data pane display the data items of your active data source, and how to perform tasks such as viewing measure details, changing data item properties, and creating geographic data items,
![Writing your own functions in SAS Data Quality using Dataflux Data Management Studio](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/06/functions-in-SAS-Data-Quality1.png)
IT organizations today are constantly challenged to do more with less. Reusing data processing jobs and employing best practices in monitoring the health of your data are proven ways to improve the productivity of data professionals. Dataflux Data Management Studio is a component of both the SAS Data Quality and
![Using parameters within the macro facility](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/05/ProblemSolvers_Graphic-400x336.jpg)
Have you ever written a macro and wondered if there was an easy way to pass values to the macro? You can by using macro parameters. Macro parameters enable you to pass values into the macro at macro invocation, and set default values for macro variables within the macro definition.