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...
Once again, I have been fortunate enough to be able to attend a SUNZ conference, this time the national conference titled ‘Open Minds’ held at the famous Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington. This is my take on the day, however, unfortunately, my phone had died the...
In the recent Qlik Sense 3.1 Service Release 2 I see that Qlik has introduced a new “Shared Persistence” storage model for multi-node installations. In this post, I will quickly explain what the “Share Persistence” model is and what that means for the installation...
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...
I have just been asked to share how I got from zero to hero (hero? Well certified at least) in AWS so I thought I would share my AWS learning journey plus group a number of my AWS posts in one place. Hopefully, this is something that can help you on your AWS journey...
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...
A colleague of mine is responsible for several of our domains and needs to renew the SSL certificates every now and then, when ever this process starts all I hear is grumblings; “Why is this so hard”, “It should be easier” – I don’t know what he needs to do in that...
Recently, I was fortunate to attend the sold out SUNZ Auckland 2016 and this is my take on the day. For those who don’t know, SUNZ stands for SAS Users of New Zealand and is a society dedicated to connecting SAS users and improving New Zealand's analytics capability....
In my previous post To SAS hotfix or to not SAS hotfix that is the question, I wrote about the different approaches an organisation can take when looking at creating a SAS Hotfix Strategy. In this post, I will take you through what an organisation should take into...