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Leonid BatkhanJanuary 13, 2016 37

SAS administrators tip: Keeping track of SAS users

If you are a SAS Administrator who is tasked with managing SAS users including adding and removing SAS users in the SAS Management Console, assigning (or re-assigning) them to Groups and Roles, maintaining their General information and user Accounts, then you know that when number of users grow, at some

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Larry LaRussoJanuary 8, 2016 0

Help for SAS administrators only a click away

If you install, update, manage or maintain a SAS deployment, you're a SAS administrator, and a very valuable resource for your organization. Every day, SAS users at your company depend on you to do their job. Being a SAS administrator is a critical and rewarding role, but it can sometimes be a lonely one as

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonDecember 29, 2015 8

What is going on with my Visual Analytics audit data collection?

In my last blog I discussed purging audit records from the Web Infrastructure Platform SharedServices database. The blog generated a fair bit of discussion around the SAS Visual Analytics auditing data gathering and archive process. So let’s take a step back and in this blog review how data collection for auditing works and

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Margaret CrevarNovember 18, 2015 4

Tips to keep your SAS system humming

From time to time we’ll hear from customers who are encountering performance issues. SAS has a sound methodology for resolving these issues and we are always here to keep your SAS system humming. However, many problems can be resolved with some simple suggestions. This blog will discuss different types of

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Data Management | SAS Administrators

Charlotte CrainNovember 11, 2015 0

In-Database Nirvana – The Five Step Process to run business rules without moving data

The phrase “business rules” is often loosely used. It can refer to things like constraints in a query, a data mapping, a data quality constraint, a data transformation, or a model. Business rules also reflect an enforced policy, a regulatory requirement and business constraints on model scores that trigger analytically-driven

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonNovember 9, 2015 4

Controlling the Size of the Web Infrastructure Platform Database Audit Tables

SAS Visual Analytics contains an Administrator Overview report which provides for Visual Analytics usage information by application, user, and object. To provide data for the report you must enable collection of key actions audit data in the Visual Analytics Middle-Tier. Auditing doesn’t just apply to Visual Analytics, it can be

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenNovember 5, 2015 0

SAS Environment Manager: Details on Alerting

We all know that alerting is one of the most powerful features of SAS Environment Manager; the flexibility and comprehensiveness of this feature is one of the things that makes SAS EV stand out among monitoring tools. If we dig a little deeper, we find that we have quite a bit of

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerOctober 21, 2015 0

The SAS Visual Analytics Home Page: It’s not just for Visual Analytics anymore!

As of Visual Analytics 7.2, the home page is designed to serve as the entry point for not only Visual Analytics, but also additional SAS applications and solutions. To this end, the SAS Visual Analytics home page is documented in both the SAS Visual Analytics Administration Guide and the SAS Intelligence

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonOctober 7, 2015 0

Part 2: Auditing data access, who did what and when?

In my last blog, I demonstrated how to configure a SAS server to write a record to a log file showing who is opening, editing or renaming a SAS table. In this blog we will see how we can process that information. The documentation shows one way to do this via

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonSeptember 30, 2015 15

Auditing data access: who did what and when?

SAS Administrators are frequently asked to log and report on which users are accessing SAS tables. This functionality is often requested by companies who, for regulatory compliance, need to track who is accessing data. In my next couple of blogs I will show how you can audit data access. In this first blog

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