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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Present at SAS Global Forum 2017 – Call for content now open](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/08/SASGF2017_globe.png)
Editor's note: This blog includes the Call For Content Announcement and Frequently Asked Questions. SAS Global Forum is the premier event for SAS users to learn, teach, and network with each other and SAS experts. SAS Global Forum 2017 takes place April 2-5 in Orlando, Florida, where you can join
![MWSUG preview: When ANY Function will just NOT do!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/08/mwsug-2016-logo.jpg)
When I attended my first SAS conference in 2003 I was not only a first-timer, I was a first time presenter. Needless to say I was a bit nervous. I did not know what to expect. Was my topic good enough for these savvy programmers and statisticians? Well my first
![Working with dates in SAS Visual Analytics: Comparing to the previous year](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/08/VisualAnalyticsHTML5.jpg)
After posting a couple of blogs on the subject of dates and date formats in Visual Analytics Designer, I got a question from a user who wondered how to compare data for a selected date to data from the same day of the previous year. Here’s one way to do
![MAPS, MAPSGFK and MAPSSAS, Oh my!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/02/ProblemSolvers.jpg)
If you are using the second maintenance release of SAS 9.3 (TS1M2) or later, you might have noticed that you have several map-related libraries that are defined for you. The MAPS library contains the old map data sets that have been provided with SAS/GRAPH® software for many years. The source
![Use Percent of Total and Reference Lines to ask better business questions](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/08/Use-Percent-of-Total-and-Reference-Lines03.png)
Reference lines on a visualization are used to help identify goals or targets, acceptable or unacceptable ranges, etc; basically any metric that puts a frame of reference around the values on the visualization. The Percent of Total of a metric is used to help identify a part-to-whole relationship. It answers
![Locating Modified Content](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2015/07/149140517.jpg)
As a SAS administrator, you may face situations where you need to locate content that has been modified in the system since a given point in time. If the system has many content developers, discovering all of the folders, libraries, tables, reports, explorations, and similar items that have been modified can be