Tips from SAS Employees

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Resources listed below are favorites from SAS employees who are active community members and dedicated to helping you establish a strong SAS foundation. Is there a help resource you wish we'd provide? Want the list to include an item especially helpful to you? Tell us in the comments.

Administration of SAS

Recommended by @MargaretC. All are SAS Global Forum papers unless otherwise noted. 

• How to Maintain Happy SAS®9 Users (things every SAS administrator needs to know)
• Grand Designs: Why It Pays to Think About Technical Architecture Design Before You Act
• Ensuring That Your SAS® Infrastructure Is Able to Meet Your SAS Users' Demands
• A Guide to SAS^® for the IT Organization
• Top 10 Resources Every SAS^® Administrator Should Know About
• Guidelines for Preparing your Computer Systems for SAS (on important aspects of hardware architecture, configuration, and setup)
• Blog: SAS Administrators (blogs.sas.com)

(The Preinstallation Doc attached below walks new SAS admins puts the above items into context.) 

Ask the Expert - Free Webinars 

Recommended by @MelodieRush

The two below are specifically for new SAS users. Once you're up to speed on your particular flavor of SAS, tune into webinars that provide a deeper dive.

• SAS Studio: An Introduction - This session introduces SAS Studio, a development application for SAS that you access through your web browser. Register for live or on-demand event

• Top 10 SAS Support Resources - This session shows you various support resources, including support.sas.com, the main SAS support site. You also learn about SAS blogs, SAS communities, and video and thought leader sites. Great information for SAS novices and experts alike. Register for live or on-demand event

Blogs and other narrative

Recommended by @BrunoMueller, @DanH_sas,  @jag_SAS, @RobPratt, and @WarrenKuhfeld

Posts, grouped topically, are from blogs.sas.com unless otherwise noted.

   Data visualization

• Graphically Speaking 
• Robert Allison's personal web page
• Basic ODS Graphics Examples (documentation)
• SAS/STAT 14.1 User's Guide: Using the Output Delivery System (documentation)
• SAS/STAT 14.1 User's Guide: Statistical Graphics Using ODS (documentation) 

   Macro quoting

• Implement BY processing for your entire SAS program
• Macro quoting made easy 

   SAS 9.4

   For platform admins:

• @PaulHomes' blog, platformadmin.com
• SAS Administrators
• Not a blog post, but a SAS 9.4 paper @BrunoMueller loves to share: Best Practice Implementation of SAS® Metadata Security at Customer Sites in Denmark

   SAS Enterprise Guide

• The SAS Dummy
• 10 Tips for organizing your SAS Enterprise Guide projects (specific post from The SAS Dummy)

   SAS/IML

• The DO Loop

   SAS/OR

• Operations Research
• SAS/OR documentation

   SAS Viya

• Top 12 advantages of SAS Viya (from SAS Users blog)

Free Video Tutorials

Recommended by @Renato_sas

• More than 400 videos, organized by product

Recommended by the SAS Support Communities team:

• YouTube Channel for SAS How-To Tutorials

 

Learn-SAS Pages on SAS.com

Recommended by @MelodieRush

Helpful getting-started resources, including video tutorials, are available on these sites, which my teammates and I call "the learn pages":

SAS® Customer Intelligence 360

SAS® Data Loader for Hadoop
SAS® Decision Manager
SAS® Enterprise Guide®
SAS® Enterprise Miner™
SAS® Event Stream Processing
SAS® Model Manager
SAS® University Edition
SAS® Visual Analytics 7.4
SAS® Visual Analytics 8.3
SAS® Visual Forecasting
SAS® Visual Investigator
SAS® Visual Statistics

[[CLICK HERE]] and select other products from the menu.

[shoin]

Very helpful indeed!

Do you have anything for middle tier stress testing?

S

[BeverlyBrown]

Hi @shoin, thank you for your comment! Just saw that you posted your question on the admin forum...good idea, as more experts will see it there.