Practice in SAS EG using my work server.

[Munivan]

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.

[Quentin]

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.

[Kurt_Bremser]

Ask your company's SAS administrator(s).

[Munivan]

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?

[Kurt_Bremser]

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.

[Munivan]

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. 

[Quentin]

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.

[Munivan]

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.

[Reeza]

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

[AlanC]

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

[AlanC]

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;

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data shoes;