SAS Users
Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![What not to wear to SAS Global Forum 2014!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/03/Thomas2.jpg)
For those of us in the United States, particularly those of us on the East Coast where SAS Global Forum 2014 will be held, it’s been a rough winter! Some mornings I wear so many layers that I feel like that Ralphie’s younger brother in the movie A Christmas Story--“I
![SAS Administration-palooza!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
My journey to SAS Global Forum each year resembles a Gartner “Hype Cycle”. Every year, I leave the conference with a million ideas about how I can take what I’ve learned back into my own practice and think (foolishly) that I should write a paper on this or that. Then there
![My top 3 picks for SAS Global Forum 2014](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Having served as conference chair for last year’s SAS Global Forum, I am so looking forward to just being a normal attendee at this year’s conference in Washington, DC. That’s right, I’ll have no speaking commitments, no interviewers, no responsibilities—just the privilege of selecting the content that is right for
![9 tips for better networking at SAS Global Forum](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2013/07/sas_user_conferences_verysmall.jpg)
Networking with other SAS users is what I love most about SAS Global Forum! At every conference, I look for ways to find those who share my interests or whose experience sheds new light on my use of SAS software. When I come across tips on networking, I always try
![What happens when the SET statement misbehaves—and how you can fix it!](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/02/ProblemSolvers.jpg)
Most SAS programmers would agree that they use the SET statement without giving much thought to the syntax, because it’s such a widely used statement of choice. We routinely name the expected data sets and possibly a few options, and away we go. A visit to the documentation can be
![Managing metadata access – the easy way](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2014/02/mmdata1A.jpg)
SAS Environment Manager 2.1 (which was released with SAS 9.4 M1), has new features to make it easier to manage your SAS environment. For example, it now supports metadata clusters, and it has an improved method for handling access to the application. But the biggest change is in metadata access.