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White Paper This paper gives a brief description of the Extended Common Log Format that is typically used by web servers to keep track of the requests that occur at a web site, and presents SAS code that reads the Extended Common Log Format web log into a SAS... [03 Jul 2008]
Modernize Your Business Reports Using ODS and SAS/GRAPH: A Case Study From SAS 8.2 to SAS 9.2
White Paper With SAS 9.1.3, various enhancements such as use of styles with client devices, new procedures like GBARLINE, and enhancements to ODS, and base procedures allowed for easier and higher-quality reports. [31 May 2008]
Ensuring Compatibility of Encoding Across Different Versions of SAS
White Paper Beginning with SAS 8.2, Base SAS has provided separately encoded versions for various locales. It has also provided the NLSCOMPATMODE option to deal with legacy code. This option, however, might become obsolete in future releases. [31 May 2008]
Introducing the SAS Code Analyzer
White Paper This paper introduces the PROC SCAPROC procedure, the SAS Code Analyzer that is new in Release 9.2 of Base SAS Software. If one is responsible for maintaining a large legacy SAS application, one is probably interested in finding ways to improve the... [31 May 2008]
Tips and Tricks for Creating Multi-Sheet Microsoft Excel Workbooks the Easy Way With SAS
White Paper This paper discusses using the new XML support in Base SAS-9 software to create multi-sheet Microsoft Excel workbooks (versions 2002 and later). Transferring SAS data and analytical results between SAS and Microsoft Excel can be difficult... [31 May 2008]
Better Hashing in SAS 9.2
White Paper The DATA step hash object is one of the most versatile new features of Base SAS programming. Since its introduction in SAS 9, the paper has numerous accounts from users where the hash object has drastically reduced data processing time for complex... [31 May 2008]
Define DB2 Library in the SAS Management Console
White Paper SAS/Access Interface to DB2 requires Base SAS, SAS/Access Interface to DB2 and DB2 Client. The purpose of this paper is to explain how to define DB2 library in the SAS Management Console, when SAS server is running on the UNIX and PC Hosts. [31 May 2008]
What Happened to My Data?: Understanding How Results Are Affected When Formatting Is Applied to Classification Variables
White Paper The supporting examples focus on Base SAS reporting procedures, PROC REPORT, PROC TABULATE, PROC SUMMARY, and PROC MEANS. Classification variables are used to group observations that have the same values. [31 May 2008]
Small Improvements Causing Substantial Savings - Forecasting Intermittent Demand Data Using SAS Forecast Server
White Paper Intermittent time series data points are mostly zero (the base value), with occasional departures from the base value. Businesses require accurate forecasts of time series data that is not continuous. [31 May 2008]
Turbo-Charging Spreadsheets: Accessing SAS Forecast Server From Microsoft Excel
White Paper Phone companies and credit card issuers care about the churn of their customer base. According to major surveys of organizational forecasting practices, there is continued widespread use of spreadsheets for forecasting, despite major advances... [31 May 2008]
The Art of Code Validation
White Paper The degree of validation performed must be based on code complexity, consumer base, and carefully assessed risk factors. Art is a negotiation between the artist's imagination, talent, and medium. The art of code validation requires objective... [06 Nov 2007]
Group Headers by Template With Optional Columns
White Paper Report program dynamically instantiates this base template to produce report with different number of columns or toggle on/off groups of columns. Proc Template is a solution to produce textual report with requirements of complicated group column... [06 Nov 2007]
The SAS Group Improves Insight Into Financial Data
White Paper The SAS Group, the Nordic region's largest listed airline and travel group, offers air transportation and airline-related services from its base in Northern Europe. The company wanted to eliminate fragmentation by creating a single reporting... [02 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... DNA database, lie detector tech, sat-nav blunders...
Comment David Arrowsmith, strategy manager for customer intelligence at SAS UK, Marlow The base data is very limited, of necessity (and OS licence costs of course) and there should be a health warning. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users... [07 Sep 2007]
Crack the Customer Value Code: Secure Customers and Profits for Life
White Paper The attendee of this webcast will learn why customers, not products, generate profits; how to spend money on the limited customer base in order to get the greatest return; how to manage the "Value exchange" - the value one delivers to the... [31 Aug 2007]
