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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Registering DBMS data in SAS Management Console](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2013/02/servdef12.png)
I am a big fan of SAS Management Console. This is the central location where you can perform many of your SAS administration tasks. One of the most important tasks of a SAS Administrator is making sure data is available to the right people when they need it. Most of
![Tiny macros break up big problems](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/ProgrammingTips-2.png)
There are many different ways to do something; my approach is all about breaking a problem into smaller problems. I try as much as possible to stay away from developing something that can only serve a purpose in one problem. I achieve this by keeping things modular. Each tool should
![Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Visualization lets them 'see' the data](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/DataVisualization-1.png)
Were you at SAS Global Forum last spring? Dr. Goodnight sat down at a computer console and personally demonstrated the cool things that SAS® Visual Analytics Explorer can do? Take a look at his demo, and then imagine working in a drag-and-drop, point and click environment with billions of rows
![Two methods for editing SAS metadata](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2013/01/metabrowse1short1.png)
The SAS Metadata Server holds all of the metadata for a given SAS EBI installation. For most SAS administrators, the sole view into the Metadata Server is through SAS Management Console. This is a very limited perspective out of the box, as much of the metadata is not surfaced by
![Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Recycle, reuse](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/AdvancedAnalytics-1.png)
This technical case study by Faisal Dosani, Royal Bank of Canada; Lisa Eckler, Lisa Eckler Consulting Inc.; and Marje Fecht, Prowerk Consulting Ltd., discusses the steps to develop a hands-off process for creating flexible and extensible solutions that avoid maintainability issues and enable speed to market of results. Building reusable
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I think most people would agree that there's not much point in locking your front door if you're going to leave the keys in the lock. With a SAS platform metadata security implementation, it is just as important to ensure that the metadata access controls that you have carefully put