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Jody CarltonJune 22, 2018 5

A transcoding story (or, How Oliver S. Füßling lost his last name and comes to find it again)

There are many ways to avoid transcoding problems when you have national language characters in SAS programs that you save from a SAS®9 (English) session and move to a UTF-8 environment. In this article, we'll share tips to help you avoid such issues.

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Steven SoberJune 21, 2018 2

How to reference CAS tables using a one-level name

To reference CAS tables using a one-level name we will issue two statements that alter which libref houses the tables referenced as one-level names.

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Stephen FoersterJune 19, 2018 0

Threads and CAS DATA Step

Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) is really exciting. It’s open, multi-threaded and distributed. And, best of all for SAS programmers, it’s SAS. You can even run DATA Step in CAS. Here's more on how DATA Step work in a multi-threaded, distributed context.

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Lexi HawksJune 8, 2018 1

SAS Studio: A new way to program in SAS

SAS Studio is the latest way you can access SAS. This newer interface allows users to reach SAS through a web browser, offering a number of unique ways that SAS can be optimized. At SAS Global Forum 2018, Lora Delwiche and Susan J Slaughter gave the presentation, “SAS Studio: A New Way to Program in SAS.” This post reviews the paper, offering you insights of how to enhance your SAS Studio programming performance.

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Melanie CareyMay 31, 2018 1

Exploring interactive reports with SAS Visual Analytics

Interactive reports with SAS Visual Analytics allow you to access the interface and product instantly. Simply choose a report to navigate and explore in our SAS Visual Analytics 8.2 viewer. There are reports for warranty analysis, retail insights, water consumption and quality, banking and risk and network performance.

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanMay 30, 2018 58

Are you developing foolproof solutions?

It is imperative for developers, whether hardware or software engineers, to foresee unintended (probable or improbable) system usages and implement features that will make their creations foolproof, that is protected from misuse. Learn more about developing foolproof solutions with this old Russian anecdote.

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Martin MinceyMay 18, 2018 16

How to change your working directory for SAS® with the DLGCDIR DATA step function

Learn how to change your working directory for SAS. Beginning with SAS® 9.4 TS1M4, you can use a new DATA step function, DLGCDIR, to change the location of your working directory.

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Advanced Analytics | Data Management | Programming Tips

Leonid BatkhanMay 7, 2018 16

SAS tools for GDPR privacy compliant reporting

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) taking effect on 25 May 2018 pertains not only to organizations located within the EU; it applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location. Here are four selected SAS tools for GDPR that allow you to protect personal data in SAS reports by suppressing counts in small demographic group reports.

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Russ TyndallApril 20, 2018 0

How to expand the number of available SAS functions within the macro language

The %SYSFUNC macro function allows you to access most SAS® functions. In this blog post, I demonstrate how %SYSFUNC can help in your programming needs when a macro function might not exist. I'll also share the formatting feature that is built in to %SYSFUNC and introduce the %QSYSFUNC that masks the returned value.

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Steven SoberApril 18, 2018 0

How to Emulate DESCENDING BY Variables in DATA Step Code that Runs Distributed in SAS® Viya™

DESCENDING BY Variables in DATA Step Code that Runs Distributed in SAS Viya

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