Over the years, we've been building up our comic-style SAS function one-page guides, drip-feeding them to you. Well, guess what?! We put them all together and made a book so they're all in the one place, to make referencing them easier for you. Thank you...
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,...
We like making life a little bit easier here at OptimalBI and one of the ways we have found to do that is by making quick how to guides. The standard text bullet point style guides isn’t what we do, we do cool sh!t. Below is a guide we have on the SAS function INTNX....
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...
For those that could not attend SUNZ this year, here is a taste of how my day went. My day of late starts with a plank, I do just one, for as long as I can each morning. Today was 1 minute 31 seconds. I then headed into my office at OptimalHQ to complete some...
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...
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...
As a SAS Admin I like things to be ordered and efficient. This includes the SAS code that you write, that then runs on my server. I have learnt a number of performance tricks over the decades and am happy to admit that I am not too old to learn some more. So...
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...
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...