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Teri PatsilarasOctober 24, 2016 0

Use Rank in SAS Visual Analytics to display the last date, month or rolling window

Requirements that are the most easily described can often be the most difficult to implement. I’m referring to requests like: Display a gauge with the most recently collected metric. Plot a 18 month rolling window of profit. Display last month’s products percent of total metrics for visual comparison. Okay, so

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Programming Tips

Russ TyndallOctober 21, 2016 4

Macro variables that provide information about your SAS® environment

Have you ever needed to run code based on the client application that you are using? Or have you needed to know the version of SAS® software that you are running and the operating system that you are running it on? This blog post describes a few automatic macro variables

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Data Management | Programming Tips

Mary Kathryn QueenOctober 19, 2016 0

Using multiple SAS Quality Knowledge Base locales in a SAS Event Stream Processing compute window

In a previous blog post, I demonstrated combining the power of SAS Event Stream Processing (ESP) and the SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB), a key component of our SAS Data Quality offerings. In this post, I will expand on the topic and show how you can work with data from

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Programming Tips

Andrew ChristianOctober 12, 2016 15

The Monty Hall Paradox - SAS vs. Python

Recently, one of sons came to me and asked about something called “The Monty Hall Paradox.” They had discussed it in school and he was having a hard time understanding it (as you often do with paradoxes). For those of you who may not be familiar with the Monty Hall

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenOctober 6, 2016 4

Auditing SAS server availability from 30,000 feet

One very useful type of auditing for a SAS administrator is to have summary data about the availability and performance of various resources (platforms, servers, services) from the 30,000-foot view. $1000 loan guaranteed. Using SAS Environment Manager, it's easy to go in and look at the availability of any one resource over

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonSeptember 29, 2016 3

How to protect your audit trail in a SAS environment

In a number of my previous blogs I have discussed auditing within a SAS environment and how to identity who has accessed data or changed reports. For many companies keeping an audit trail is very important. If you’re an administrator in your environment and auditing is important at your organization,

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Programming Tips

Larry OrimoloyeSeptember 27, 2016 0

Operationalising Open Source Models Using SAS

With my first open source software (OSS) experience over a decade ago, I was ecstatic. It was amazing to learn how easy it was to download the latest version on my personal computer, with no initial license fee. I was quickly able to analyse datasets using various statistical methods. Organisations

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Kirk Paul LaflerSeptember 26, 2016 7

SAS performance tuning - A little bit goes a long way

Over the past 37 years I've had the good fortune to be able to attend and present at hundreds of in-house, local, regional, special-interest and international SAS events. I am a conference junkie. I've not only attended thousands of presentations, Hands-On Workshops, tutorials, breakout sessions, quick tips, posters, breakfasts, luncheons,

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips

Aaron HillSeptember 23, 2016 2

The evolution of support.sas.com

Every day, more than one hundred thousand SAS users visit our website looking for SAS information and resources. Given its importance to our user base, we’re constantly looking for ways to evolve the site. Over the next few months, you’ll notice changes to the support website, changes we believe will

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Edoardo RivaSeptember 21, 2016 0

SAS Studio tips for SAS Grid Manager Administrators: Where are my preferences?

In a previous blog post I explained how end users should code and use shared locations for SAS artifacts, to avoid issues in a SAS Grid Manager environment. Still, they could still fall in some sharing issues, which could have very obscure manifestations. For example, users opening SAS studio might notice

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