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Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

Munivan — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 15:04:50 GMT

I hope you're doing well. I wanted to reach out and let you know that I recently completed a SAS EG querying and reporting course, and I'm eager to gain more practical experience in SAS. I have SAS EG installed on my work laptop, as well as access to two servers: SASAppOA and SASAppVA.

I understand that SASAppVA is designated for production use, but I was wondering if I could utilize one of the servers for practice purposes. I want to ensure that I don't accidentally interfere with any ongoing projects in the folders. Could you please advise me on the appropriate server to use for practice, as well as where I should save my output?

Thank you for your assistance.

Re: Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

Quentin — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 15:07:25 GMT

This is probably a better question for colleagues in your your business who use the servers. Perhaps ask the administrator who helped set up your account on those servers for guidance.

Re: Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

Kurt_Bremser — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:28:21 GMT

Ask your company's SAS administrator(s).

Re: Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

Munivan — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:40:11 GMT

I am the SAS Admin and I am new to SAS. I am still learning. Everything is new for me. I found in SAS EG a Library named WORK. Can I use it to save my practice outputs or it is better to create a new library and save them there?

Re: Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:25:57 GMT

So the people who installed your SAS server(s) are no longer in your company? What about those using the servers beside you?

WORK is a temporary library which is physically created when a SAS session starts, and deleted when the session ends, so it is not a suitable place to "save" anything.

Re: Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

AlanC — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 13:50:35 GMT

Just assign a library.

Example:

libname test '\\NASLOCATION\MyStuff';

data test.ShoeCopy;

set sashelp.shoes;

run;

* Test is now a physical library that is saved ;

You can also just run the libname statement standalone and it will allocate a library for you. You need 2 level library statments, otherwise it is a assumed to be work. These are equivalent:

data work.shoes;

---

data shoes;

Re: Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

Munivan — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:09:58 GMT

Yes, the people who installed your SAS server(s) are no longer in my company.

Right, I read about WORK library after I posted the question.

Re: Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

Quentin — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:36:15 GMT

Do you have SAS programmers / SAS developers still? That is, other people who are connecting to the servers and writing code (either for ad-hoc analysis or for developing tools?).

Sounds like there jobs/projects on the servers. Would probably be helpful to talk to the people who work on those jobs/projects.

Re: Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

Munivan — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:22:29 GMT

Our company have only one data analyst. She left the company and they hired me. I used to work with Power BI. Now I am learning SAS EG reporting. I think I can create a new folder to save my practice work. I hope I'm thinking right.

Re: Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

Reeza — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:37:52 GMT

EG is not the replacement for PowerBI, that would be SAS Visual Analytics.

Re: Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

AlanC — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:47:59 GMT

Keep in mind you can use PowerBI using the SAS datasets as ODBC sources.