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SAS Viya Tips: Finding and Utilising the Number of Rows in a CAS Table Through Macros
This article might be somewhat more specific than a few of our broader discussions here. However, SAS Viya is a reasonably new tool…
How to Import JSON into SAS without the LIBNAME Statement
For users running SAS 9.4 maintenance release 4 or later, the LIBNAME JSON engine is a great feature that allows JSON data to be read into SAS with only a few lines of code. For those without access to the JSON engine…
Using SAS SQL to Create Data-Driven Macro Variables
If you are looking for a way to assign data values to macro variables in SAS, a PROC SQL step is one of the easiest and most readable ways to do it. In this article, you will learn how to assign data values to macro variables in a PROC SQL step, making your code more dynamic and self-sufficient…
Discovering All Available Data in a SAS Viya CASLIB
SAS Viya is a cloud-native platform which is able to host many of SAS’s other services such as SAS Visual Analytics or SAS Studio. One of the strengths of SAS Viya is the Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) in-memory engine…
SAS & CAS: Many Hands Make Light Work
SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) is a server that provides a cloud-based, run-time environment for data management and analytics with SAS. It allows data management and analytics to take place on either a single machine or as a distributed server across multiple machines…
Nested JSON via SAS
When you need to export data from your SAS system JSON proves to be an ideal format, given the superb inbuilt tools in SAS…
SAS Data Management Server integration
Admittedly, this is a niche interest article, but I hope it will be helpful to anyone who has the need to use data jobs within SAS Data Management Studio (DMStudio) and SAS Data Management Server (DMServer) or simply for those who are interested in learning a little more about both of these suites…
Every Cloud has a beneficial lining
A couple of months into my career at Butterfly Data, I was assigned with understanding how to deploy SAS Viya onto Microsoft Azure…
Getting to grips with SAS
In my second interview with Butterfly Data, I was asked about SAS. I thought it was one of those clever questions interviewers ask to throw off a candidate…
Dynamically Creating Code with SAS
The ability to dynamically create code allows you to make incredibly flexible systems for processing data. For example, on a project Butterfly Data has worked on, we built a data quality system which checked the quality of 190+ data types, each of which had different formats.