As a SAS Administrator, I have been responsible for a number of SAS sites either for the organisation I have worked for at the time or through OptimalBI's managed SAS Admin service. Every site required, be it a formal or informal, strategy to implement SAS Hot Fixes...
When I was a bit younger, faster, and didn’t have kids I was part of an adventure racing team which raced together over a few years building to an 800km 5-10 day race in Australia. One thing we did after most races and training missions was a review of how...
Last week I attended the SUNZ AGM (Annual General Meeting) Networking Drinks in Auckland which was linked via Skype to the Wellington meeting. SUNZ is the official user group for New Zealand SAS users. It is dedicated to helping improve the experience of SAS users. I...
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...
As part of my role as a ‘Preventer Of Chaos’ at OptimalBI I manage SAS Installations on multiple client sites. I am often kept on my toes (a good thing) with having to know things about the multiple Operating Systems that these SAS environments run on. I am no way an...
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...
Once again I was fortunate to attend the National SUNZ one-day conference in Wellington. The event was well run (except for one slight timing glitch between the two streams), the food was good and the networking drinks were even better (mmm Beer). I understand the...
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)....