I had the privilege to listen to the Assistant Commissioner of Privacy, Jon Duffy during National Privacy Week. Jon started at the beginning by exploring what defines privacy simply put as, something that identifies a person. He then took us through a highlights real...

I recently attended SUNZ 2018. Mike Frost - Director, Product Management at SAS, spoke on Getting Automated Outcomes in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.  As well as being a sassy dresser Mike spoke highly of AI and that it was the way of the future, but also had a...

Hi, all you new and budding SAS administrators.   I hope you have read my other two blogs in this series, SAS Admin The Basics - Part 1 and Part 2 where I discussed creating a daily checklist and the need to have a Monthly Health Check.  Now in SAS Admin The...

Hi, all you new and budding SAS administrators.   In SAS Admin The Basics - Part 1 I talked about creating a daily checklist, now we're going to move on to a Monthly Health Check.  It's a good practice once a month to dive a little deeper into your SAS platform...

Hi, all you new and budding SAS administrators. I thought I would share a few things I have picked up over the years that you may what to add to your tool bag. Firstly, make yourself a daily checklist.  This will vary depending on your site but here are some basic...

Some of you may recall I wrote a blog some time ago on SAS Visual Analytics auto load libraries. In that blog, I talked about using the autoload library that is created "out of the box" by SAS, here I am going to show you how to create additional autoload libraries if...

Recently I had to change my password (as we all do), but on this occasion it didn't work, while not completely anyway. This is my story and what I learnt. I changed my password when prompted during the login process and then logged into SAS Enterprise Guide and...

If you come across an error like this in your synchronisation log    ERROR: A Person named Shane Miles already exists in this server.  you may be able to delete the user from the server and rerun the process, or you may have to exclude the user from the load process....