SAS released Hot Fix A53007 for Enterprise Guide 4.22 on June 29, 2010. This Hot Fix applies to 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. The Hot Fix address two issues, including: Issue 38357 – SAS stored process might fail to run when the language is set to Norwegian Issue 40130 – Errors might occur [...]
I had been using SAS Enterprise Guide 4.22 for months without any crashes, but in May I installed the SAS Hot Fix A53005 primarily because it was available. After installation of the Hot Fix, whenever I attempted to run the Create Format task, even in a brand new project, I received the following error: SAS [...]
from Chris Hemendinger, senior software manager in SAS R&D and author of The SAS Dummy Supported Versions and Combinations: You can use EG 4.1 with local SAS 9.2 (no metadata server). Everything local on your Windows machine; it should just work. You can have both EG 4.1 and EG 4.2 on your local machine, along [...]
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® Share [...]
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 [...]
I’m currently attending Querying and Reporting Using SAS Enterprise Guide training at the SAS office in Austin, TX. I’m a veteran at using Enterprise Guide, but SAS has great training courses and you always pick up a lot of worthwhile information when you are lucky enough to attend. One tidbit that was covered yesterday that [...]
When using a Microsoft product, I’m used to mousing to the Help menu and choosing About… to find out which updates or service packs have been applied. I haven’t been as accustomed to doing the same thing with SAS software because the updates are applied manually, and I usually remember the last update I performed. [...]
