A strong point of SAS Enterprise Guide is that it interacts seamlessly with many data types using the Microsoft Jet Engine (Excel .xls, Access .mdb, dBase .dbf, Lotus.wk?, Paradox .db, and text files .txt .csv etc). To provide even more flexibility, there are also a few different ways in Enterprise Guide to output data to [...]
I was one of the unfortunate ones who was unable to attend the SAS Global Forum in Seattle last week. Thanks to discussion forums, blogs, and Twitter, I was able to keep up with a lot that was going on. I was particularly interested in some of the new features that will be available in [...]
SAS recently released Hotfix 41EG14 for Enterprise Guide 4.1. The hotfix resolves issues identified in: Problem Note 39149: The SAS Enterprise Guide editor’s width of caret position panel within the status bar does not accommodate for large row and column number schemes Problem Note 38003: Unable to edit existing parameter in SAS® Enterprise Guide®
I have had to add Group Content Administrators to my SAS 9.2 Intelligence Platform a few times now, and it didn’t work as smoothly the last time due to my inability to read ALL of the steps and accompanying notes. The process of configuring a Group Content Administrator in the Information Delivery Portal is well [...]
WordPress is a great blogging tool and does an adequate job handling comments, but if you want to provide enhanced discussion capability among your sites users, you must install additional software. The WordPress developers have created bbPress to fill this purpose, and in doing so also added the ability to integrate the two tools on [...]
It has been four months since Garmin has updated it MapSource Windows-based mapping software. MapSource is included with the purchase of a Garmin map on DVD or CD. Features include: Back up important trip data separately from your Garmin device. Plan routes from the convenience of your computer instead of on your device. Create, view, [...]
After a successful installation of SAS Enterprise BI Server on my Sun Servers, a certain amount of time is spent modifying configuration files and backup scripts, as well as browsing log files. I use the vi editor to accomplish the editing. I used used vi a lot back when all of my GIS work was [...]
from support.sas.com… The following considerations apply to SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 customers who have used SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 or earlier releases. Support for SAS Enterprise Guide repositories has been discontinued; all metadata must be stored in a SAS Metadata Repository. Servers are no longer administered through SAS Enterprise Guide Explorer, and must now be [...]
You probably have many SAS data sets that you regularly work with where numbers are stored as text for formatting purposes. A great example is the social security number, and many other customer, product, or invoice numbers are formatted similarly. They frequently utilize leading zeros in their storage and display. You probably also frequently receive [...]
SAS OLAP Server names for cubes, dimensions, hierarchies, measures, and member properties follow these general rules: can be up to 32 characters in length can contain embedded blanks If the name has embedded blanks or characters other than letters of the Latin alphabet, numbers, or underscores, then PROC OLAP formats the name as a name [...]
