Take Advantage of Early-Bird Savings on M2004
 Register by Sept. 3 and save $200 on your registration fee! M2004 will convene Oct. 18-19 in Las Vegas. During this seventh annual data mining conference, you'll learn how to forecast the future and identify the factors that will secure a desired outcome. We'll also share ways to help you increase acquisition and retain your most valuable customers, segment your markets for a targeted approach and much more. Read More
Does IT Matter?
Do IT-driven initiatives produce expected returns? What area of IT spending yields the best ROI? How do the returns on operational investments compare with the returns on intelligence investments? Want to hear the discussions surrounding these topics and more? Join us on Wednesday, Aug. 25, for an innovative live Webcast featuring Nicholas Carr, author of the controversial Harvard Business Review article "Does IT Matter?" and Jim Davis, senior vice president at SAS. Register now! Read More
Manageability in SAS®9 Gives You Control, Choices
As business intelligence software becomes easier to use, more users seek to reap its benefits. But to serve more business users and handle more data, a system has to be scalable. Then, as a system scales and becomes more complex, manageability becomes the next challenge. Find out how SAS has incorporated elements into SAS®9 that make its software and solutions easier to implement, run and maintain. Read More
Pacific Northwest SAS Users Group Conference
This year's PNWSUG conference is scheduled for Sept. 19-21 at the Airport Sheraton Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Don't miss this unparalleled opportunity to learn more about SAS software capabilities from leading experts whose presentations offer something for attendees at all experience levels. Register before Sept. 3 and save $25! Read More
Midwest SAS Users Group Conference
This year's MWSUG conference is scheduled for Sept. 26-28 at the Fairmont Chicago. Don't miss this special opportunity to learn more about SAS software capabilities from leading experts whose presentations offer something for attendees at all experience levels. Register before Aug. 29 and save $50! Read More
Data Quality: A Best Practices Forum
Join SAS in San Jose on Tuesday, Aug. 24, for a day of powerful conversations and informative presentations focused on best practices in data quality. Data quality guru Larry English will help you develop strategies to tap into the power of your data by integrating data quality standards into enterprise intelligence initiatives. Read More
SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office: Accessing SAS Through a Familiar Interface
"The SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office unleashes the power of SAS through three basic capabilities," explains "Insider" and SAS software manager Jennifer Clegg. "It enables users to access SAS data sources, run SAS tasks to do ad hoc analyses, and execute stored processes. It is a valuable tool for experienced and novice SAS users." Read More
What's New for PDF Output in the SAS®9 Release of ODS?
David Kelley, software manager at SAS, offers this "Insider's" look at PDF output in SAS®9. "In the SAS®9 release, SAS has improved ODS PDF by making it more efficient, offering more compliance with regulatory guidelines, and providing more flexibility for controlling aspects of your SAS output," Kelley explains. Read More
Unleashing the Power of SAS®9: A Web Seminar Series
 SAS is offering a series of free, on-demand Web seminars to help you see and understand the value that SAS®9 delivers. You'll hear about SAS data integration products that simplify and accelerate data movement and sharing, provide enterprisewide query and reporting capabilities, and offer the widest available portfolio of analytics you can apply to virtually every business problem. Originally broadcast live, each seminar concludes with a Q&A session with the participants. Read More
SAS ABM and Corporate Compliance Training
BetterManagement University offers selected courses to complement the topics and solutions presented at BetterManagement LIVE Worldwide. This year, courses will be held Oct. 17-19, before BetterManagement LIVE Worldwide, so you can attend both events. CPE-certified courses are provided by SAS and focus on modeling and reporting techniques for ABM and corporate compliance. Read More
SAS OLAP Server
SAS has created a central location for usage information about SAS OLAP Server. On these Web pages, you'll currently find white papers and SUGI papers. In the future, look for helpful tools, tips and FAQs. Read More
Quick Tip: Exporting Comma Delimited Files for Use in MS Access or Excel
 If you ever need to write data out to comma delimited files for importing into MS Access or Excel, Nina Werner, a SAS user at Dean Health Plan, provides a helpful routine. Her tech tip checks every non-numeric field for commas and substitutes blank spaces by using the TRANSLATE function. Read More
|
This paper presents DATA step language enhancements in SAS®9 and SAS 9.1. These enhancements include: Perl regular expressions for fast search-and-replace in text, hash tables for searching and expandable collection of values based on a key, and sorting values with the DATA step function. Performance improvements that speed existing code are also discussed, along with new ways to output log messages and retrieve variable values. (PDF) 
