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SAS Technology Reports - February 2006 |
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Tuesday, 14 February 2006 |
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In this Issue:
- Drop Variables from a SAS Data Set When All Its Values are Missing
- Measures to Successful Coding
- SUGI 31: The Adventure Awaits
- The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 3.0
- Beyond the Semicolon: 20 Years of Lessons Learned as a SAS User
- Test-Drive Self-Paced e-Learning at SUGI
- Information Quality for Business Intelligence and Data Mining
- SAS Announces First Annual Business Forecasting Conference
- New Green Belt Training from the Design Institute for Six Sigma
- Perform a Fuzzy Merge Within a Range Using DATA Step Component Objects
 | Focus on BI Server Enhancements
Wednesday, Feb. 15
1:00-2:30 p.m. ET
Tune into this demo for a sneak peek at new enhancements for SAS Enterprise BI Server that will spotlight the essentials for driving business innovation.
| | SAS Press Web Seminar Series
Tuesday, Feb. 21
12:30-1:15 p.m. ET
See how to programmatically measure SAS application performance on any platform with the new LOGPARSE SAS macro. Join us for this free Web seminar!
| | SUGI 31
March 26-29
San Francisco
This popular user event is only 40 days away! Be sure to attend and take home useful tips and techniques.
| | JMP® User Conference
June 20-21
Cary, NC
Attend exciting and insightful sessions, plus roundtable discussions, a Scripting workshop, a Genomics Discovery event and exclusive training courses.
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Dear Readers,
 There are many ways you can put SAS to work for you. This newsletter, I hope, is one useful and informative vehicle. And our customer Web site offers technical support assistance, documentation, samples, communities, software downloads and training. In fact, training is an excellent way to learn about SAS® software. It can also be used to supplement or refresh your existing knowledge. SAS President and CEO Jim Goodnight said recently, "For 30 years, our goal here at SAS has been to provide superior software that empowers you to take your business beyond expectations. And on that journey toward excellence, SAS training is the road map." To help you make the most of your SAS software, we offer instructor-led training, self-paced e-learning and SAS certification. Check out the training Web site for details. If you're planning to attend the annual SAS Users Group International (SUGI) conference in March, you can begin your training in San Francisco. See the Web site for the training line-up. Thanks for using SAS!
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 Drop Variables from a SAS Data Set When All Its Values are Missing
Use arrays and iterative DO loops to determine whether a variable's values are all missing.
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Measures to Successful Coding
Stephanie Thompson, a SAS user, is offering a series of articles on programming designed to help you write good code and ensure that you get the answers you need. "Being a successful SAS programmer means bringing yourself up to speed with some basic programming skills," she says.
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 SUGI 31: The Adventure Awaits
The SAS Users Group International (SUGI) conference is just around the corner. Held March 26-29 in San Francisco, SUGI 31 features nearly 400 demonstrations, papers, posters and workshops by SAS users and SAS staff. There will be several new features this year, including industry focus sessions, Super Demos and a business intelligence forum.
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The Little SAS Book for Enterprise Guide 3.0
Learning to use SAS Enterprise Guide® has never been easier! With this new title, Susan Slaughter and Lora Delwiche help you quickly become familiar with the SAS Enterprise Guide point-and-click environment.
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Beyond the Semicolon: 20 Years of Lessons Learned as a SAS User
In this first article of a new series, SAS user Bryan Beverly helps new SAS users utilize SAS to the fullest. "Your career path traverses three communities of interest and practice," he says. "To be successful, you must be familiar with and able to navigate comfortably across all three areas: the management domain, the technology domain and the end-user domain."
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 Test-Drive Self-Paced e-Learning at SUGI
Sign up at the self-paced e-learning booth located in the demo area for free access to award-winning lessons in programming, certification training and business intelligence.
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Information Quality for Business Intelligence and Data Mining
Information problems in information definition, data content and preparation, and information presentation can cause business intelligence processes to fail. In this article Larry English, president of Information Impact International, identifies some of the critical information quality (IQ) problems in collecting, preparing and presenting information for business intelligence and data mining along with IQ principles for mitigation or prevention.
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SAS Announces First Annual Business Forecasting Conference
Learn the latest forecasting theories, trends and best practices from world-renowned forecasting experts at F2006, the conference for forecasting professionals. SAS' first annual business forecasting conference will be held at SAS World Headquarters in Cary, NC, June 5 and 6. F2006 will feature four morning keynote addresses and a dozen session talks covering practical applications, methods, tools and successful case studies in business forecasting. Register early and save on the regular conference fees.
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New Green Belt Training from the Design Institute for Six Sigma
Transform your process into profit. Using JMP® software, you can learn about Six Sigma philosophy, tools and the DMAIC methodology, and apply it to your manufacturing or transactional breakthrough projects. Two new courses are now available.
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 Perform a Fuzzy Merge Within a Range Using DATA Step Component Objects
Use the hash iterator to search a hash object for a value that is within a range from a second data set.
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