The SAS Training Post

How to open a SAS information map in SAS Web Report Studio

Michele Reister — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:00:37 +0000

Business users of SAS are finding the Web Report Studio capabilities incredibly beneficial for viewing, creating, and sharing reports on the Web. The easy-to-use query and reporting software provides a point-and-click interface for building reports from several different data sources. Once created, SAS reports can be views by many SAS [...]

Help! I have too many variables for a cube!

Catherine Truxillo — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:35:46 +0000

The following email landed in my inbox this morning and it is such a good question that I decided to share because it comes up often. (If you are the sender, thank you for sending this message and pulling me out of a no-blogging-recently slump!) Dear Cat, I need some help [...]

Jedi SAS Tricks: These aren't the droids... Episode 2

Mark Jordan — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:03:41 +0000

We started out in Episode 1 cleaning and standardizing data from the Academy. As you recall, Mr. Vader apparently had a attitude when making his entry in the database. The original data looked like this: You can find the code for creating the original data set back in Episode 1. There, [...]

How to open a SAS OLAP cube in SAS Web Report Studio

Michele Reister — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:00:28 +0000

SAS Certification hits the big 4-0

Terry Barham — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:24:33 +0000

The SAS Global Certification program concluded 2011 with a bang by awarding the 40,000th SAS credential. Program growth has continued to accelerate ever since the 1999 launch, with a dramatic 53% growth in the total number of SAS certifications awarded in the last two years alone. With SAS credential holders in [...]

3 SAS Display Manager shortcuts

Charu Shankar — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:45:04 +0000

How we love shortcuts. Our life seems more efficient with them. I try to take the earlier train for a good parking spot that lets me exit early. Actually change that to any spot (my train station has tons of commuters with FEW parking spaces so getting up early is the [...]

Harness the power of the cloud for learning SAS

Kathy Passarella — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:00:34 +0000

Since this is my first post on The SAS Training Post blog, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kathy and I am an instructor at SAS Headquarters in Cary, NC. I teach SAS courses in our on-campus training center, at regional training centers, at customer sites and [...]

How to open a SAS table in SAS Web Report Studio

Michele Reister — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:09:03 +0000

With SAS and Facebook, who needs Meetup?

Michelle Buchecker — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:51:13 +0000

In my previous blog post I talked about how to map your Outlook contacts and create a list of the 3 people nearest the zip code you were traveling to. That’s all fine and dandy, but my friends often don’t update me when they move and we just connect via [...]

How to use SAS to strengthen friendships

Michelle Buchecker — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:25:55 +0000

As SAS Instructors we travel fairly frequently, and like most of you we have friends scattered throughout the country. High school friends, college friends, family we like (or pretend to). And if I’m on a business trip, I like to see if they are available for drinks or dinner. As [...]