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Phil WeissOctober 20, 2017 5

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

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Amber ElamOctober 20, 2017 7

Tips for using the IMPORT procedure to read files that contain delimiters

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

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Leonid BatkhanOctober 20, 2017 6

Creating reports in style with SAS Enterprise Guide

“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

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Leonid BatkhanSeptember 15, 2017 12

Using a web browser as a SAS code editor

Whether you are a SAS code creator, a blogger, a technical writer, an editor-in-chief, an executive, a secretary, a developer or programmer in any programming language or simply someone who uses computer or hand-held device for writing, you need to read this blog post – your life is about to

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Marcia SurrattSeptember 15, 2017 17

PROC SGPLOT: There’s an ATTRS for that

The SGPLOT procedure (as well as other ODS Graphics procedures) does a great job of creating nice- looking output with very little coding. However, there are times when you want to make adjustments to the output's appearance. For those occasions, we have an ATTRS for that! The statements in PROC

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Kevin RussellAugust 21, 2017 6

Always save your code when creating a stored compiled macro

The stored compiled macro facility enables you to compile and save your macro definition in a permanent catalog in a library that you specify. The macro is compiled only once. When you call the macro in the current and subsequent SAS® sessions, SAS executes the compiled code from the macro

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Gerry NelsonAugust 17, 2017 6

SAS Viya sharing credentials for database access

SAS Viya deployments use credentials for accessing databases and other third-party products that require authentication. In this blog post, I will look at how this sharing of credentials is implemented in SAS Environment Manager. In SAS Viya, domains are used to store the: Credentials required to access external data sources. Identities

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Leonid BatkhanAugust 2, 2017 71

CALL EXECUTE made easy for SAS data-driven programming

In my prior posts (Data-driven SAS macro loops, Modifying variable attributes in all datasets of a SAS library, Automating the loading of multiple database tables into SAS tables), I presented various data-driven applications using SAS macro loops. However, macro loops are not the only tools available in SAS for developing

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Data Visualization | Programming Tips

Teri PatsilarasJuly 26, 2017 4

SAS Visual Analytics 8.1: Configuring prompts with different source data

In a previous blog, I describe how there are a few new features related to report and page prompts in SAS Visual Analytics 8.1; namely the ability to configure cascading prompts in VA 8.1: Cascading Prompts as Report and Page Prompts. In this blog, I will cover how to configure prompts, either

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Larry LaRussoJuly 25, 2017 26

Programming tips from experienced SAS users

Trivial Pursuit, Justin Bieber and Timbits. Some pretty great things have come from Canada, eh? Well, you can go ahead and add expert SAS programmers to that impressive list. In this video, six Canadian SAS programmers, with more than 115 years of SAS programming experience between them, share some of their favorite, little-known SAS programming tips. You're sure to discover a new trick or

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