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Andrew ChristianOctober 12, 2016 15

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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Programming Tips

Martin MinceySeptember 16, 2016 1

Do you need multiple graphs on a page? We have got you covered!

If you use SAS® software to create a report that contains multiple graphs, you know that each graph appears on a separate page by default. But now you want to really impress your audience by putting multiple graphs on a page. Keep reading because this blog post describes how to

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Mary Kathryn QueenSeptember 15, 2016 0

Using SAS Quality Knowledge Base Definitions in a SAS Event Stream Processing Compute Window

The SAS Quality Knowledge Base (QKB) is a collection of files which store data and logic that define data cleansing operations such as parsing, standardization, and generating match codes to facilitate fuzzy matching. Various SAS software products reference the QKB when performing data quality operations on your data. One of

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Programming Tips | SAS Events

Larry LaRussoSeptember 9, 2016 0

Analytics in the Cloud gets a whole lot easier with SAS Analytics for Containers

If you’re doing data processing in the cloud or using container-enabled infrastructures to deploy your software, you’ll want to learn more about SAS Analytics for Containers. This new solution puts SAS into your existing container-enabled environment – think Docker or Kubernetes – giving data scientists and analysts the ability to

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