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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Let’s talk about Microservices](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/05/Microservices1-702x321.png)
Microservices are a key component of the SAS Viya architecture. In this post, I’ll introduce and explain the benefits of microservices. In a future post we’ll dig deeper into the microservices architecture. What are microservices? When we look at SAS Viya architecture diagrams, we can find, among the new core components,
![Dr. StrangeRAM or: How I learned to stop worrying and love CAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/05/Love_CAS_Diagram-702x336.jpg)
As SAS Viya has been gaining awareness over the past year among SAS users, there has been a lot of discussion about how SAS’ Cloud Analytic Server (CAS) handles memory vs SAS’ previous technologies such as LASR and HPA. Recently, while I was involved in delivering several SAS Viya enablement
![Linking to target reports and sections in SAS Visual Analytics 7.4](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/05/Target-Reports-and-Sections-in-SAS-Visual-Analytics-702x336.png)
SAS Visual Analytics 7.4 comes chock-full of new features. Report and section linking come with an added benefit. If you set up linking from one section to another section in the same report, or from one report to another report, you have the option to configure linking such that any filter
![Automating the loading of multiple database tables into SAS tables](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/04/automation-702x336.jpg)
When developing SAS applications, you can feed database tables into your application by using the libname access engine either by directly referring a database table, or via SAS or database views that themselves refer to one or more of the database tables. More on Automation with SAS: Let SAS write
![How to configure Oracle client for successful access to Oracle databases from SAS Viya](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/03/sas-viya-702x336.jpeg)
SAS Data Connector to Oracle lets you easily load data from your Oracle DB into SAS Viya for advanced analytics. SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle (on SAS Viya) provides the required SAS Data Connector to Oracle, that should be deployed to your CAS environment. Once the below described configuration steps for
![Use SAS to send an email that embeds a graph in the body of the email](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/04/email-icon-500x336.png)
When using the SAS® system to email graphics output, a common request is to use SAS to send an email in which the graphics output is embedded in the body of the email. This functionality is not available until the second maintenance release for SAS® 9.4 (TS1M2). If you are