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Providing technical tips and support information, written for and by SAS users.![SAS Help Center: Your gateway to documentation](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/10/SASHelpCenter2-702x336.png)
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.-Winston Churchill If you've visited SAS documentation (also known as the "SAS Help Center") lately, you may have noticed that we've made some fairly significant changes in the documentation for SAS products and solutions. The new site is organized in a new way, search
![Top 12 Advantages of SAS Viya](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/03/sas-viya-702x336.jpeg)
There are many compelling reasons existing SAS users might want to start integrating SAS Viya into their SAS9 programs and applications. For me, it comes down to ease-of-use, speed, and faster time-to-value. With the ability to traverse the (necessarily iterative) analytics lifecycle faster than before, we are now able to generate
![Tips for using the IMPORT procedure to read files that contain delimiters](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/10/IMPORT3.png)
Reading an external file that contains delimiters (commas, tabs, or other characters such as a pipe character or an exclamation point) is easy when you use the IMPORT procedure. It's easy in that variable names are on row 1, the data starts on row 2, and the first 20 rows
![Creating reports in style with SAS Enterprise Guide](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/10/WomaninHat1-550x336.png)
“The difference between style and fashion is quality.” -Giorgio Armani With an out-of-the-box SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) installation, when you build a report in SAS EG it is displayed in a nice-looking default style. If you like it, you can keep it, and continue reading. If you don’t quite
![SAS Viya 3.2 Bridge for SAS Data Integration Studio 4.902 (on SAS 9.4M4) configuration steps](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/10/SAS-Viya-3.2-Bridge-for-SAS-Data-Integration-Studio9.jpg)
The goal of this article is to describe the steps needed to configure the bridge that allows SAS Data Integration 4.902, based on SAS 9.4M4, to load data directly into CAS on SAS Viya 3.2. Of course, SAS 9.4M5 simplifies this process, as a SAS/CONNECT communication will no longer be required, enabled
![A tip for moving content between SAS Viya environments](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/files/2017/03/sas-viya-702x336.jpeg)
In a SAS Viya 3.2 environment two types of content can be created: SAS Visual Analytics Reports and Data Plans. For administrators, who may want to manage that content within a folder structure, there are some things to keep in mind. In the current release, both types of content can be