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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Securing SAS installations--some recent papers](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2013/05/applestack.jpg)
Reading Jan Bigalke’s SAS Global Forum paper on “Hardening a SAS® Installation on a multi tier installation on Linux" reminded me of baking apple stack cake with my mother. Neither is a simple project. Both are time-consuming, and their success depends on how skillfully you handle each layer. Data security
![Be nimble, be swift, be Agile](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2013/05/agile.png)
At SAS, one of our core values is to be swift and agile. So it makes sense that our software development be Agile too. The Agile methodology has been around for more than 10 years and was designed with software development in mind. Today, it is still used predominately for
![SAS administrator connections and resources](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
A good chunk of the SAS year revolves around SAS Global Forum. Pre-conference, everyone is busy polishing presentations and planning meetings. Post-conference is the best—attendees come back to Cary with heads full of customer ideas to implement and notebooks full of contacts to follow up on. One user's request found its
![Pot of gold at the end of each SAS user conference](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2013/05/pot_of_gold.jpg)
Every time you see a rainbow, do you look to see where it begins and where it ends? Legend has it that there is a pot of gold at the end of each rainbow with leprechauns guarding it. While this might be popular Irish folklore, and you may not find
![Why is SAS 9.4 a big deal?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
SAS Global Forum 2013 is a couple weeks in the past, but the feedback and anticipation shared by customers as they heard about SAS 9.4 are still fresh in our minds here at SAS. As we put the final touches on the June release, the excitement we felt in San
![Pre-assign SAS libraries? If so, which method?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2013/05/preassign12.png)
As we have seen my previous post "Seeing SAS data through metadata", there is a fundamental difference between accessing a SAS library using a physical reference or a metadata reference to that library. By now, you should now be an expert on the nuances of physical references to SAS data