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Tag: Developers

A collection of SAS blog posts geared towards developers.

Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanApril 1, 2019 32

Dividing by zero with SAS

Whether you are a strong believer in the power of dividing by zero, agnostic, undecided, a supporter, denier or anything in between and beyond, this blog post will bring all to a common denominator. History of injustice For how many years have you been told that you cannot divide by

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Analytics | Programming Tips

Deva KumarMarch 26, 2019 6

Serverless functions and SAS Viya - a good match

Also celebrating is your bank's branch manager. She was skeptical when headquarters analysts equipped branches for "Cloud-based application using SAS" , saying it would speed up loan applications. But your quick, frictionless transaction proved them right.The bank's accountants are happy too. The new pay-as-you-go mode of using SAS software in

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Banking

Data Management

Clemens KnoblochMarch 20, 2019 0

Calling SAS Decision Manager Rulesets in Event Stream Processing

SAS Decision Manager enables you to build and test decisions to use in batch processes, real-time web applications or with SAS Event Stream Processing. In this blog, I explain how to use Rulesets in an Event Stream Process project. If you are streaming data using SAS Event Stream Processing and

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Joe FurbeeMarch 6, 2019 7

Getting started with SAS Containers

As of December 2018, any customer with a valid SAS Viya order is able to package and deploy their SAS Viya software in Docker containers. SAS has provided a fully documented and supported project (or “recipe”) for easily building these containers. So how can you start? You can simply stop

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanMarch 5, 2019 16

How to conditionally terminate a SAS batch flow process in UNIX/Linux

In automated production (or business operations) environments, we often run SAS job flows in batch mode and on schedule. SAS job flow is a collection of several inter-dependent SAS programs executed as a single process. In my earlier posts, Running SAS programs in batch under Unix/Linux and Let SAS write

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SAS Administrators

Scott McCauleyFebruary 12, 2019 0

5 things to know about multi-tenancy

Multi-tenancy is one of the exciting new capabilities of SAS Viya. Because it is so new, there is quite a lot of misinformation going around about it. I would like to offer you five key things to know about multi-tenancy before implementing a project using this new paradigm. All tenants

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Data Management | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanFebruary 6, 2019 21

How to split a raw file or a data set into many external raw files

Recently, I worked on a cybersecurity project that entailed processing a staggering number of raw text files about web traffic. Millions of rows had to be read and parsed to extract variable values. The problem was complicated by the varying records composition. Each external raw file was a collection of

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Data Management | Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanJanuary 9, 2019 33

Simplify data preparation using SAS data templates

My New Year's resolution: “Unclutter your life” and I hope this post will help you do the same. Here I share with you a data preparation approach and SAS coding technique that will significantly simplify, unclutter and streamline your SAS programming life by using data templates. Dictionary.com defines template as

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Programming Tips

Joe FurbeeDecember 21, 2018 7

SAS REST APIs: a sample application

This post rounds out the year and my series of articles on SAS REST APIs. You can read all of my posts on this topic here. The first two articles in the series: Using SAS Viya REST APIs to access images from SAS Visual Analytics and Using SAS Cloud Analytics

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SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonDecember 18, 2018 0

Introducing Python-based command-line tools for SAS Viya

Find out about this new set of tools designed to be used in conjunction with the sas-admin command line interfaces.

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Tag: Developers