SAS Communications #2 May 1974

In May 1974 the second issue of “SAS Communications” was published by the SAS Project Group. Within these pages you discover fascinating insights into the early days of SAS. A PDF of the original is available

SAS Communications 1973-1979

In December 1973 the first issue of “SAS Communications” was released to the SAS User Community. Below is an extract of issue #1 - a unique and fascinating account of the early days (and members) of the SAS Project Group. A PDF of the original is...

Loading files to SAS with CURL

The Performance of Dosubl vs Call Execute

Both dosubl and call execute accept raw SAS code as input.  The difference between them is that call execute will take your code and add it to the stack (so, after your data step completes) whilst dosub...

Think you know SAS? Take the Sasensei Challenge

Think you know SAS?  Take the Sasensei challenge!  We’ve developed a question based learning system that will put your SAS knowledge to the test.  Sasensei is a kick ass ninja training tool for an expanding range...

Tabs v Spaces - which is more popular in SAS?

Tabs or Spaces?  Does it even matter, so long as you / your team are consistent?  For many SAS developers the standard place to write code is the Program Editor - for which the default setting is to use tabs, else 4 spaces.

Interestingly - ...

Look out - Locale Gotcha

As gotcha’s go, this was a good one!

We had a report being generated with dates that were inconsistent with the source file (MMDDYY instead of DDMMYY), but only for certain records.  This was definitely related to the

Building SAS Apps Locally

I’ve recently been using Visual Studio to build my SAS Web Apps, which is great as the intellisense will even scan css files to help with code completion.  Per...

Adding SAS Configuration Manager plugin to SMC

The SAS Configuration Manager plug-in is great for tweaking settings of the SAS Web Applications without poking around in xml and config files.  However, you may find it missing from the usual place under the Application Management folder in SAS M...

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