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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![What makes a GREAT SAS administrator?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
In my 26 plus years of experience, I would contend that the best SAS administrator would be an individual with a deeply skilled understanding of server and/or desktop administration, as well as SAS software usage.
![Tutorials, tutorials, tutorials at SAS Global Forum](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
It's not too early to think about what presentations and pre-conference training to attend while at SAS Global Forum 2012. Tutorials are an extra-fee that is only available as additions to a conference registration. But you can get a deal: Registration package 3 includes your choice of one Sunday Pre-Conference Tutorial.
![Big data in small bites](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SASevents-2.png)
Sigurd Hermansen, from Westat, got his idea for breaking big data into small pieces after watching Jim Goodnight dissect a blade server to show the power high-performance analytics has processing for big data. Goodnight also demonstrated how Visual Analytics Explorer transfers the data from the servers to a workstation and
![Friday's Innovation Inspiration - Fish mating calls?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2012/09/fish-mating-calls1.jpg)
I'm going to handle this Friday's Innovation Inspiration a bit differently from the way I usually do; rather than helping you find information so that you can try this on your own, I'd like to know what you would use to display fish mating calls. Obviously you would need a few
![Why use Hadoop?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2012/10/big_data1-271x300.jpg)
You may still believe that Hadoop is going to solve all of the world’s problems with big data. It won’t. Hadoop is a framework for storing large-scale data processing with both pros and cons for organizations. Christopher Stevens, from Greenplum, explained that Hadoop is rapidly becoming the go-to for big
![Encoding a password](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/01/SAS-Administrators-1.png)
Leanne Tang has learned a lot about encoding in her work of providing relevant user data and securing the database from accidental changes. There are hundreds of SAS users at the National Agricultural Statistics Service. Tang didn’t want to create thousands of accounts and passwords to allow those users to