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...
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...
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...
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...