When a user starts and runs code in a SAS session, a number of temporary folders and files are created in the SASWork and SASUtil locations. If that session completed and exits normally these folders and files are removed, however some SAS sessions exit abnormally,...
The Planets and stars aligned; While visiting family near Wellington and our monthly team meeting was on the same week, I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the SUNZ National conference held at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington. For this short post...
You may or may not have heard that SAS have recently released a product/platform called SAS Viya. What is it and where can I find out more, well in this post I’ll try to answer these questions. What is SAS Viya? First here is one of the many announcements of SAS...
If you have read my post How to install Qlik Sense in AWS you would have seen I have had the chance to have a play with installing Qlik Sense on the AWS infrastructure. Well I wanted to take it one step further by deploying the Qlik Sense server behind an AWS ELB...
Following on from my previous post AWS TIPS AND TRICKS: Automatically create a cron job at Instance creation I mentioned I was uploading files from S3 using the AWS cli tools S3 sync command and I thought I would share how. The concept When launching an EC2 instance I...
As mentioned in my previous blog AWS TIPS AND TRICKS: TIME ZONE I have had to do a few things I didn’t know how to do when setting up an EC2 Linux server and I thought I would share these learnings. How to automatically create a cron job at Instance creation. I needed...
I have mentioned in previous posts I am no way near an expert in OS’ especially Linux, although I have to use in some form or another on a regular basis. While attempting to configure one of our AWS Linux servers I needed to do a few things that I have not had to do...
Amazon Web Services have just turned 10 and they gave a present away. For about half of March, they made all of their QwikLabs free. What is a QwikLab you ask? Who better to answer than AWS themselves (Thanks, QwikLab FAQs) “A qwikLAB is an online learning environment...
Late last year I wrote a blog on how easy Qlik Sense was to install, but hinted there might be an even easier way. Well it appears that there is, especially if you are using AWS as your instance/server provider, and if you use the Qlik Deployment Console (QDC)....
Working at OptimalBI, I am asked to install and configure a number of products be it for production workloads or internal evaluations. Some of these products require days of configuration (according to the vendor) or at the other end of the spectrum require a single...