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Margaret CrevarFebruary 12, 2014 2

About SAS® 9 and Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Here in the SAS Performance Lab, we’re seeing more and more SAS sites moving their SAS® 9 application workloads to Windows Server 2012. Now that we’ve had sufficient time to gather feedback from early implementers of SAS on these systems, we thought you might want a recap of some of

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Rob CollumJanuary 29, 2014 2

Managing multiple users of a SAS Installer account

Does your site have multiple people maintaining a single deployment of SAS? Is it important for them to maintain a clear audit trail of who is doing what exactly? Or do you need to update your SAS deployment using different userids? Let's take a look at some techniques to manage

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Johnny StarlingJanuary 22, 2014 0

Single Sign-On: Accessing your Data Management Platform with one key

In the movie, The Matrix: Reloaded, our heroes and the KeyMaker frantically navigated from world to world through a series of doors and locks trying to escape the villains. Fortunately for our heroes, the KeyMaker always had the right key on his ring, he just had to know what key

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Margaret CrevarJanuary 15, 2014 0

SAS 9.4 agents—keep them running

Starting with SAS 9.4, not only will SAS administrators see lots of processes running on your operating system supporting the various SAS servers (such as SAS Metadata server), you will also see two new processes that have a description of “agent” running. Agents are software processes responsible for tasks such

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Christina HarveyJanuary 8, 2014 0

Server settings: energy savings vs. performance

Software performance is a complex topic. The answer to every question depends—depends on hardware, depends on operating system, architecture, time of day, number of users and so on. (Margaret Crevar gave us some insight into that complexity in her January 2013 post Improving performance: Understand the problem.) That’s why we

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Christina HarveyJanuary 1, 2014 2

SAS administrator roles and responsibilities: a recap

Welcome to the SAS administrator blog series for 2014! Back in early 2013, the most popular posts on the SAS Users Groups blog were all about the roles and responsibilites of SAS administrators. I was reminded of them during a presentation at WUSS 2013 in Las Vegas. Carey Smoak of

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Gregory NelsonDecember 25, 2013 1

SAS metadata and third-party databases—an FAQ

In November, I resumed the “it’s all about the data” series, laying a foundation for helping SAS administrators understand how SAS stores and manages data for use in business intelligence and analytic applications. For this article, I culled our internal Thotwave knowledge base and queried our consultants who get questions

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Margaret CrevarNovember 27, 2013 1

SAS deployment: what's the right size?

This is a continuing topic of the SAS Administration and Performance blog series. In the last edition, I discussed why you need to do a technical assessment prior to planning your SAS deployment. Yes, this step takes time, but you’ll find it far easier to implement the suggested tuning guidelines

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Wendy McHenryNovember 20, 2013 11

How to use encryption in Base SAS 9.4

If you’re not an expert on encryption, have no fear! SAS 9.4 has introduced ways to bring stronger encryption to your SAS deployment. The good news is that SAS/SECURE is now a part of Base SAS when you upgrade to SAS 9.4 and is not a separately licensed product anymore.

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Gregory NelsonNovember 13, 2013 2

Understanding SAS and third-party databases

Wow did the summer fly by! Now that grad school is over, it’s about time to resume the “it’s all about the data” series. In the last several posts, I tried to lay a foundation for understanding how SAS stores and manages data for use in business intelligence and analytic

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