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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![Expand Your SAS Knowledge by Learning PROC SQL](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2020/01/493186856-702x336.jpg)
One great thing about being a SAS programmer is that you never run out of new things to learn. SAS often gives us a variety of methods to produce the same result. One good example of this is the DATA step and PROC SQL, both of which manipulate data. The
![Missing data? Quickly impute values using SAS Viya](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2020/01/imputationnode-338x336.png)
This blog is part of a series on SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning (VDMML). If you're new to SAS VDMML and you want a brief overview of the features available, check out my last blog post! This blog will discuss types of missing data and how to use imputation
![How to utilize Customer Lifetime Value with SAS Visual Analytics](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2020/01/CLV5-702x336.png)
Some business models will segment the worth of their customers into categories that will often give different levels of service to the more “higher worth” customers. The metric most often used for that is called Customer Lifetime Value (CLV). CLV is simply a balance sheet look at the total cost spent versus the total revenue earned over a customer’s projected tenure or “life.”
![Foresight is 2020! New books to take your skills to the next level](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2020/01/books-612x336.jpg)
Are you ready to get a jump start on the new year? If you’ve been wanting to brush up your SAS skills or learn something new, there’s no time like a new decade to start! SAS Press is releasing several new books in the upcoming months to help you stay
![Why does my SAS date have the wrong century?](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/05/ProblemSolvers_Graphic-400x336.jpg)
2020 is here and systems that use 2-digit years in date values are getting confused. Do we mean 1920 or 2020? In SAS, the YEARCUTOFF= option lets you decide.
![Adventures of a SAS detective and the fantastic FIND function](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2019/12/Full_Data_Set.jpg)
Did I trick you into seeing what this blog is about with its mysterious title? I am going to talk about how to use the FIND function to search text values. The FIND function searches for substrings in character values. For example, you might want to extract all email addresses