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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Single Sign-On: Accessing your Data Management Platform with one key](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
In the movie, The Matrix: Reloaded, our heroes and the KeyMaker frantically navigated from world to world through a series of doors and locks trying to escape the villains. Fortunately for our heroes, the KeyMaker always had the right key on his ring, he just had to know what key
![SAS 9.4 agents—keep them running](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
Starting with SAS 9.4, not only will SAS administrators see lots of processes running on your operating system supporting the various SAS servers (such as SAS Metadata server), you will also see two new processes that have a description of “agent” running. Agents are software processes responsible for tasks such
![Server settings: energy savings vs. performance](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
Software performance is a complex topic. The answer to every question depends—depends on hardware, depends on operating system, architecture, time of day, number of users and so on. (Margaret Crevar gave us some insight into that complexity in her January 2013 post Improving performance: Understand the problem.) That’s why we
![SAS administrator roles and responsibilities: a recap](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
Welcome to the SAS administrator blog series for 2014! Back in early 2013, the most popular posts on the SAS Users Groups blog were all about the roles and responsibilites of SAS administrators. I was reminded of them during a presentation at WUSS 2013 in Las Vegas. Carey Smoak of
![SAS metadata and third-party databases—an FAQ](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
In November, I resumed the “it’s all about the data” series, laying a foundation for helping SAS administrators understand how SAS stores and manages data for use in business intelligence and analytic applications. For this article, I culled our internal Thotwave knowledge base and queried our consultants who get questions
![Santa's route in SAS Visual Analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2016/10/Use-Rank-in-SAS-Visual-Analytics08.png)
Being so close before Christmas I thought it would be a good idea to see what route Santa Claus is planning this year. Not just because I'm living in Australia and Santa usually comes in t-shirts & shorts but also because it's a long way to get down here. So