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Russ TyndallApril 22, 2016 0

Solutions for missing DATA step features within DS2

The DS2 programming language gives you the following powerful capabilities: The precision that results from using the new supported data types Access to the new expressions, write methods, and packages available in the DS2 syntax Ability to execute SAS Federated Query Language (FedSQL) from within the DS2 program Ability to

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Uttam KumarApril 19, 2016 0

Accessing SPD Engine Data using Hive

With the release of SAS® 9.4 M3, you can now access SAS Scalable Performance Data Engine (SPD Engine) data using Hive. SAS provides a custom Hive SerDe for reading SAS SPD Engine data stored on HDFS, enabling users to access the SPD Engine table from other applications. The SPD Engine

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Leonid BatkhanApril 13, 2016 32

Automatic data suppression in SAS reports

Have you ever used SAS to produce reports for publishing? Have you ever thought of or been told about suppressing data in such reports? Why do we need to suppress (in the sense of withholding, concealing, obscuring or hiding) data in published reports? The reason is simple - in order

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Tricia JenkinsApril 12, 2016 5

Let me help you with that! A technical SAS resource guide

On the search for some SAS notes, workarounds or sample code? What you may not know is that there are a ton of SAS resources out there providing examples, tips and tricks that are great to have in your tool belt! Many of these resources provide sufficient insight and resolutions

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Edoardo RivaApril 6, 2016 7

SAS Studio Parallel Process Flows

One of the hidden gems of SAS Studio is the ability to run process flows in parallel. This feature really shines when used in a grid environment. Let’s discuss this one step at a time. First, what is a process flow? When working in the Visual Programmer perspective, you have

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Scott McCauleyApril 4, 2016 23

SAS Visual Analytics autoload configuration made easy

In the past, configuring a new autoload library for SAS Visual Analytics was a manual process involving steps to create very specific folder structures and to copy and edit scripts and SAS programs. No more! Updates to the SAS Deployment Manager have added a new task that creates and configures new autoload libraries

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenMarch 30, 2016 0

Opening Up the SAS Environment Manager Report Center

The SAS Environment Manager Report Center is a set of SAS stored processes and SAS macros which leverage the SAS Data Mart for the purpose of monitoring and auditing a SAS installation. Full documentation on the structure and functioning of the Data Mart can be found in the SAS Environment Manager

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Bobbie WagonerMarch 22, 2016 16

Making Best Use of Date Formats in Visual Analytics Designer

You may have noticed that when using date information in SAS Visual Analytics, that the date data values can be displayed in a variety of ways. You may see your dates displayed like Jan1916, 03Jun1915, or 03/12/16, for example. In this blog I’ll help you understand SAS date and time

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Kevin RussellMarch 11, 2016 7

Using a pipe to return the output of an operating system command to SAS® software

Being able to access information about your operating system from within SAS can be incredibly useful. For example, if you have a directory that contains an unknown number of CSV files that you would like to read into SAS, you certainly would not want to have to write an IMPORT

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Data Management | Programming Tips

Nicolas RobertMarch 7, 2016 2

Data Governance Series: Share DataFlux Data Quality profiling metrics in SAS Visual Analytics (Part 2)

In this post, I continue the journey of getting data profiling results into SAS Visual Analytics. In my first blog I described the process of collecting DataFlux Data Quality profiling metrics to load a datamart. Now we load this datamart into memory (LASR) and then plug a VA report on

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