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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Scott McCauleyDecember 21, 2016 0

Easier Space Management for EV Data Mart Tables in 9.4M4

The report-ready SAS Environment Manager Data Mart has been an invaluable addition to SAS 9.4 for SAS administrators. The data mart tables are created and maintained by the SAS Environment Manager Service Architecture Framework and provide a source of data for out-of-the box reports as well as custom reports that any

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenOctober 6, 2016 0

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. Using SAS Environment Manager, it's easy to go in and look at the availability of any one resource over various time spans--for

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonSeptember 29, 2016 0

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 | 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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SAS Administrators

Andrea NegriSeptember 19, 2016 0

SAS Administrator: la top 10 delle domande frequenti (PART 2)

Ciao a tutti e ben ri-sintonizzati sulle frequenze di Radio SAS Technical Support per le prime 5 posizioni della classifica delle domande più frequenti da parte dei SAS Administrator al Supporto Tecnico SAS! La volta scorsa abbiamo visto queste posizioni dalla 10 alla 6: 10. COME CONTATTO IL SUPPORTO CLIENTI SAS?

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Hot fix RSS feed in Microsoft Outlook

Chris HemedingerSeptember 12, 2016 0

How to stay informed about SAS hot fixes

SAS releases regular updates to software products in the form of hot fixes and maintenance releases. Hot fixes are SAS' timely response to customer-reported problems, as well as a way to deliver occasional security-related updates that can affect any software product. At SAS we call them "hot fixes." Other companies

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonAugust 31, 2016 0

A quick way to update to SAS Studio 3.5

Update-in-place supports the ability to update a SAS Deployment within a major SAS release. Updates often provide new versions of SAS products. However, when using the SAS Deployment Wizard to perform an update-in-place you cannot selectively update a machine or product. As a general rule if you want to update

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Teri PatsilarasAugust 15, 2016 0

Use Percent of Total and Reference Lines to ask better business questions

Reference lines on a visualization are used to help identify goals or targets, acceptable or unacceptable ranges, etc; basically any metric that puts a frame of reference around the values on the visualization. The Percent of Total of a metric is used to help identify a part-to-whole relationship. It answers

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Scott McCauleyAugust 10, 2016 0

Locating Modified Content

As a SAS administrator, you may face situations where you need to locate content that has been modified in the system since a given point in time. If the system has many content developers, discovering all of the folders, libraries, tables, reports, explorations, and similar items that have been modified can be

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonAugust 2, 2016 0

Two steps to update your SAS License and check if it is updated

One of the jobs of SAS Administrators is keeping the SAS license current. In the past, all you needed to do was update the license for Foundation SAS and you were done. This task can be performed by selecting the Renew SAS Software option in the SAS Deployment Manager. More recently,

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Margaret CrevarJune 30, 2016 0

15 top Global Forum 2016 papers for SAS administrators

I look forward to SAS Global Forum each year and this past conference ranked up that as one of the best I've ever attended. This year there were so many wonderful presentations, Super Demos and workshops on the topic of administration of SAS and the underlying hardware infrastructure needed for SAS

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Advanced Analytics | Analytics | Internet of Things | SAS Administrators

Andrea NegriJune 28, 2016 0

IoT analytics create bigger role for administrators

Some of the most common questions from customers are about their analytics administration. Often regarded as house-keeping, administration failures can nevertheless cause real pain. The typical day-to-day tasks of analytics administration include checking availability and health of the analytics platform components, allocating proper resources for users like memory, file systems,

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenJune 13, 2016 0

Auditing using the SAS Environment Manager Report Center– tips and tricks

As an addendum to my previous two blogs on using the SAS Environment Manager Report Center, this blog illustrates further tips and tricks you can use to help make the creation of your custom reports easier. The Ad-Hoc Reporting section of the Report Center is specifically designed to provide a

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Advanced Analytics | SAS Administrators

Andrea NegriMay 23, 2016 0

SAS Administrator: la top 10 delle domande frequenti (PART 1)

Ciao a tutti e ben sintonizzati sulle frequenze di Radio SAS Technical Support! Oggi trasmettiamo la prima parte della super-classifica delle domande più frequenti che riceviamo dai SAS Administrators che operano presso le aziende nostre clienti. Il SAS Administrator è la super-star della Architettura e della Piattaforma SAS, le sue attività

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Dave NadenMay 18, 2016 0

Creating custom reports from the Data Mart

My previous blog discussed the SAS Environment Manager Report Center, and talked about its organization, and how to start using some of the prompts to get the reports you want. The next step is to learn to use some of the example reports provided to help you design your own, production-level

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Edoardo RivaMay 4, 2016 0

Is your new grid behaving oddly?

New default parameter values for Platform Suite for SAS Sometimes, when your kids grow older, they change their habits and you don’t recognize their behaviors any more. “We play this game every year at the beach. Don’t you like it anymore?” you ask. “Dad, I’m not seven years old any

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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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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Tricia JenkinsApril 12, 2016 0

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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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Scott McCauleyApril 4, 2016 0

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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SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonMarch 28, 2016 0

Who changed my SAS Visual Analytics reports and explorations?

In a couple of my previous blogs I discussed how to audit who made changes to data in a SAS environment. In the last couple of weeks I have been asked how to do the same thing for SAS Visual Analytics reports and explorations. The Visual Analytics administrator overview report

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Uttam KumarFebruary 22, 2016 0

Copy data to Hadoop using SAS Data Loader

The SAS Data Loader directive ‘Copy Data to Hadoop’ enables you to copy data from DBMS to Hadoop Hive tables. The SAS Data Loader for Hadoop can be configured to copy data from any external database which offers JDBC database connectivity. SAS Data Loader uses the Apache Sqoop™ and Oozie

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Edoardo RivaFebruary 9, 2016 0

New year resolution: Don't let old stuff slow down your SAS Grid

As another year goes by, many people think about new year’s resolutions. It’s probably the third year in row that I’ve promised myself I’d start exercising in the fabulous SAS gym. Of course, I blame the recently concluded holiday season. With all the food-focused events, I couldn’t resist, ate way

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Bobbie WagonerFebruary 8, 2016 0

Accessing the provided Relationship Report in SAS Visual Analytics 7.3

In SAS Visual Analytics 7.3, the usage reports accessed from the administrator includes a relationship report. This report provides very basic lineage and dependency information for selected object types. The data to populate this report comes from the middle-tier relationship service. Once you enable the collection and extraction of this

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Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Gerry NelsonJanuary 26, 2016 0

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

In my last blog (What is going on with my Visual Analytics audit data collection) I reviewed how middle-tier auditing works and where to look for logs to debug issues. In this follow up blog I will do the same for the Visual Analytics audit data archiving process. The archive process is

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanJanuary 13, 2016 0

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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SAS Administrators

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 0

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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SAS Administrators

Margaret CrevarNovember 18, 2015 0

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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