The cellar flooded as the snow melted, and our submersible pump chose this moment to retire; my year-old toddling son has killed our printer; he, his brother and my wife are suffering from a flu-like vomiting bug; the car’s alternator wiring has short circuited, and finally our SAS server was strangled by an Active Directory [...]
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SAS and the future
What is the future for SAS®? I read on sasinct.com about possible mergers or acquisitions of SAS by SAP in a few years time after they (SAP) have bought Teradata… Technorati Tags: future, r, SAS, sas-l, sasinct
Server hotfixed
Well, we applied the hotfix to the SAS® server last night – after a horrendous morning when corruption in our Active Directory left us unable to log on. The hotfixing and testing took about an hour, we were done by 7pm, and it appears that it worked – 11 sessions running happily and people trickling [...]
It really was that easy!
Dead computer. All manner of files left behind on the hard disk. Aargh!
Thank goodness for technology!
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Hotfixes
How to hotfix a server? It has been quite an effort getting IS to support our server hotfix. See It just crashed… for details. Part of the problem is that IS don’t support the server in any meaningful way at the moment. This is likely to change in the future: watch ths space! When I [...]
Getting data into memory
Buffers seem to be the first step, specifically the bufsize and bufno system options. These tell SAS® how much data is read into memory: bufsize sets the size of a page in the file cache and bufno sets the number of pages to be read in one go. Technorati Tags: buffers, bufno, bufsize, data, memory, [...]
Performance considerations for SAS
Having recently taken over as SAS® admin, I’m having fun and games trying to establish quite what is where, …, and why. We’re using v8, planning to upgrade to v9 shortly, and the box seems very slow. This may be because the server is doing more work – more users and larger datasets than I [...]
New Year, new hardware
As the year drew to a close, so did the life of my (supposedly trusty) computer. The price of computers has dropped to such an extent that, for the amount I paid for the original, I was able to buy a laptop and a desktop. Both are HP and were delivered quickly by dabs.com. Technorati [...]
Welcome!
Welcome to reflections.concept-delivery.com and my first blog entry!