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Chris DeHartJuly 12, 2021 3

The SAS/ACCESS Developer's Corner: SUBCHAR-acteristics

Understanding the problem Working with character data of different encodings across different systems can occasionally result in failures to translate or transcode that data from its source format to a destination format. When using a SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME engine to query DBMS data, this scenario can end up causing errors when

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Leonid BatkhanJuly 6, 2021 22

Little known secrets of DO-loops with index variables

SAS' Leonid Batkhan reveals how to use versatile iterative DO loops with index variable pertaining to SAS DATA steps.

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Yinliang WuJune 25, 2021 10

How to evaluate SAS expressions in DATA Step dynamically

In many programming languages, there is a function named eval() that can be used to evaluate an expression and return the result at run time. For example, in Python, the eval() function parses the expression passed to it and runs a Python expression or code within the program. Even Python

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Peter StyliadisJune 22, 2021 0

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 5 - Loading Server-Side Files into Memory

Welcome to the fifth installment in my series Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya. In previous posts, I discussed how to connect to the CAS server, how to execute CAS actions, how to work with the results, and how your data is organized on the CAS server. In

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Kevin RussellJune 21, 2021 1

Important caveats to consider when you run a DATA step on CAS tables

Kevin Russell of SAS Technical Support reveals the effects of data size and language elements in your code when you execute the DATA step in CAS.

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Peter StyliadisJune 17, 2021 0

Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS® Viya® - Part 4 - Exploring Caslibs

Welcome to the fourth installment in my series Getting Started with Python Integration to SAS Viya. In previous posts, I discussed how to connect to the CAS server, how to execute CAS actions, and how to work with the results. Now it's time to understand how your data is organized

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Leonid BatkhanJune 14, 2021 8

Using SYSTASK and SAS macro loops for massively parallel processing

SAS' Leonid Batkhan presents an implementation of parallel processing by spawning multiple SAS sessions using SYSTASK statements with subsequent synchronization.

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Ron CodyMay 25, 2021 0

Reordering rows and columns in a 2x2 table with SAS® Studio Tasks

In SAS Studio, the ordering of rows and columns in the Table Analysis task are, by default, arranged by the internal ordering of the values used in the table. The table arranges the variables alphabetically or numerically by increasing value. For example, traditional coding uses 1 for Yes and 0

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Tara St. ClairMay 20, 2021 4

SAS Viya on Kubernetes with Azure Active Directory: Group-based access to Azure File Shares

In my previous post, Group-based access to Azure Files in the new SAS Viya, I walked through an example of making one or more Azure File Shares available to SAS Viya end user sessions with a group-based access pattern. This post extends the scenario and covers the case where we

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Dina DuhonMay 11, 2021 1

SAS Global Forum: Your experience, your way

It’s safe to say that SAS Global Forum is a conference designed for users, by users. As your conference chair, I am excited by this year’s top-notch user sessions. More than 150 sessions are available, many by SAS users just like you. Wherever you work or whatever you do, you’ll

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