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Gregory NelsonJune 4, 2014 0

A day in the life of a SAS Administrator: Understanding the roles we play

I can’t believe that it has been almost two months since SAS Global Forum in Washington DC! As always, I was reinvigorated and came back with even more ideas on how to improve the way that we do things, apply new lessons and try some things out – along with

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SAS Administrators

Wendy McHenryMay 21, 2014 0

SAS Visual Analytics: managing user permissions

I’ve recently had the opportunity to learn a little more about administering SAS Visual Analytics. The sessions introduced me to two new GUI interfaces that simplify the work for SAS administrators. In my last post, I shared how to load data into memory using the SAS Visual Data Builder. After

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SAS Administrators

Margaret CrevarMay 14, 2014 0

Finding and deleting orphaned SAS WORK and SAS Utility directories

SAS administrators often ask for a utility that can detect orphaned SAS WORK and SAS Utility directories on their back-end SAS compute systems. These orphaned directories result when a SAS Enterprise Guide or any other SAS GUI application is terminated incorrectly, and the SAS session does not terminate properly. SAS

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Wendy McHenryMay 7, 2014 0

SAS® Visual Analytics: loading data into memory

Many years ago I was a SAS administrator for both a UNIX server and a LINUX server. I had a lot of syntax memorized and a lot of commands at my fingertips. If I ever mis-typed a command, I’d have to try again. I remember writing plenty of batch scripts

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Learn SAS | Programming Tips | SAS Administrators

Leonid BatkhanMay 1, 2014 0

Autoexecs—the SAS Enterprise Guide advantage

As I was preparing for a customer introduction to using SAS Enterprise Guide, I asked them to send me all the questions they had regarding the Enterprise Guide usage. It turned out that many of their questions can be answered with a single feature called an autoexec, or automatically executable

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Edoardo RivaApril 30, 2014 0

SAS 9.4 Grid line mode--the past meets the future

When I worked for SAS Italy, I was considered an old SAS employee because I started with SAS 8, and I saw all SAS 9 innovations from the beginning. I can even remember using SAS 6.12 a couple of times! Then I moved to the US and I felt like

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Data Management | SAS Administrators

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Lane WhatleyApril 23, 2014 0

The data management black box--SAS® Job Monitor

Solving the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 hinges on the finding the plane's black boxes, or flight data and cockpit voice recorder. An airplane’s black box is something we hope never has to be used, but when there’s a problem, we sure are glad that it’s there. The black

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Johnny StarlingApril 16, 2014 0

Using metadata to identify "my brother Darryl"

Recently, as I was driving in listening to National Public Radio (NPR), the topic of conversation was Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency (NSA), again. If you’ve been listening to any of this coverage, it seems the news media has a new catch word “metadata” that they are throwing

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Margaret CrevarApril 9, 2014 0

Seeing SAS Administrators in their natural habitat

It was wonderful to see and talk with so many SAS Administrators at SAS Global Forum this year. If you’re like me, you may have finished the conference wondering why it wasn’t possible to be two places at once because there was so much terrific content that it was impossible

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Margaret CrevarApril 2, 2014 0

Test results show SAS performs admirably with flash storage from Fusion-io®

SAS is constantly evaluating new technologies for internal and customer experiences. Based on requests from many of our customers, SAS R&D engaged with Fusion-io® to do performance testing with Fusion-io® ION™ Accelerator and ioScale™ storage devices. Our testing goals for the testing included:

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Chris Hemedinger

Chris HemedingerMarch 19, 2014 0

New superpowers for SAS administrators

SAS administrators have a delicate balance to maintain. SAS users want to be happy and productive, and to be granted the freedom to use any techniques in their skill set to accomplish their work. But the Business (or Government or Research institution) wants their sensitive data to be protected, and

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Wendy McHenryMarch 12, 2014 0

Upgrading to SAS 9.4—it’s a trip!

Are you one of the users who upgrades to the latest version of SAS as soon as it comes out? Or are you like some and wait to upgrade until you’re jumping several versions? We’ve talked in previous posts about the benefits of moving to SAS 9.4, so today I’m

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Tricia AanderudMarch 5, 2014 0

Making plans for SAS Global Forum 2014

SAS Global Forum starts for me in the fall of the prior year. This is when you submit your ideas for papers and then wait patiently for many months to learn if it was selected. I enjoy writing and presenting ideas, so here are my topics and what inspired them.

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SAS Administrators | SAS Events

Gregory NelsonFebruary 26, 2014 0

SAS Administration-palooza!

My journey to SAS Global Forum each year resembles a Gartner “Hype Cycle”. Every year, I leave the conference with a million ideas about how I can take what I’ve learned back into my own practice and think (foolishly) that I should write a paper on this or that. Then there

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SAS Administrators

David BassFebruary 19, 2014 0

Managing metadata access – the easy way

SAS Environment Manager 2.1 (which was released with SAS 9.4 M1), has new features to make it easier to manage your SAS environment. For example, it now supports metadata clusters, and it has an improved method for handling access to the application. But the biggest change is in metadata access.

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Margaret CrevarFebruary 12, 2014 0

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 0

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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Data Management | SAS Administrators

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 0

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 0

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 0

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 0

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 0

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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Edoardo RivaNovember 6, 2013 0

Dear LSF: Can you start a SAS Workspace Server?

SAS 9.4 has been out for some time now, and all SAS grid computing enthusiasts know that one of the new features is that SAS Workspace Server processes can be directly launched on the grid. (See The Top Four User-Requested Grid Features Delivered with SAS® Grid Manager 9.4.) What does

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Christina HarveyOctober 23, 2013 0

Grid options sets: what’s new for SAS Grid Manager

In SAS Grid Manager environments, SAS administrators must often set up separate configurations based on a mix of requirements for departments, client applications and user roles. To accomplish this in previous SAS releases, administrators must define multiple SAS Application Server contexts, each with its own grid server definition and associated options.

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Margaret CrevarOctober 16, 2013 0

SAS deployment: do you need an architectural plan?

"Do I really need a detailed technical architecture before I start my SAS Deployment?" My team gets asked these questions all the time: Do we really need to spend the time for the above exercise? Why can’t we just start doing the deployment of SAS and fix issues if they come

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Amy PetersOctober 9, 2013 0

What’s new for SAS administrators in SAS 9.4: popular questions answered!

Recently I delivered a SAS Talks session: SAS 9.4: What’s New for SAS® Administrators . We had a large group attend and subsequently had a wonderful flood of questions that we couldn’t always keep up with. So I wanted to follow up with some of the popular questions:

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Christina HarveyOctober 2, 2013 0

Parallel processing in SAS: when and how to use it

Do your SAS programs read extra-large volumes of data? Do they run multiple DATA steps and procedures one after the other for hours at a time? Two papers from MWSUG 2013 show how you can speed up those long-running SAS jobs. Although their approaches and environments differed, both authors made

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