Hi All   I always get confused when someone ask me about the differences between SAS Foundation(Base SAS) Vs SAS BI Suite products how they connecting when , I know each and every tool functionality to some extent. But still  confusion when it comes to their connection Local/Server, I raised this question to some folks but they could not even explain it properly. Where exactly SAS Foundation and SAS BI Suite Environment differs connection wise locally and Remote. Why SAS Services like Metadata Server, Compute Server and Midtier servers will get used by BI Tools (SAS EG, Information map, SAS WRS, Information delivery, SAS EM..etc) and which will not be needed for Base SAS to execute any Job. If Base wont connect to Servers like BI Tools then where do they connect to execute the sas code. People always say when you have Installed SAS Foundation means it comes with Suite of Base SAS components and  which will connect only locally, locally means they do not connect to any SAS Servers (Meta, Compute servers). If they connect locally means where to they connect...Where the code will execute ? When you submit a code in SAS EG normally it connects to metadatserver then it authenticates then connects to objectspawner which spawns a workspace session to execute the job...so same way base sas how it connects. My understanding is BI tools when they want to interact with third party data bases they need these servers, but where as base sas interacting with local files such as (.txt,ms office files) so they don't need to connect to any sas servers, just foundation is enough to support the sas file...am I correct here.   When you say SAS foundation is only local for Base SAS purpose then why those components will show up on linux server when you install complete SAS software and also when you check products with setinit in SAS EG it will show all foundation and BI tools. and also SAS EG can be connected locally and to Server, when it connects locally  and when i submit job where and how the job will be executed locally without connecting to any server. I would really appreciate if any one can answer my questions   Thank you in advance ... View more

Hi Friends -   Need your suggestion on Certification for SAS Platform Administration for SAS 9   am planning to take a SAS Platform Administration certification soon by this Sep month ending   I have only 1 week to 10 days of time to take and Crack this certification at any cost   I have just only 3 1/2 years of experience in SAS Administration and not having much experience in this.   I saw some  websites in google where they are offering SAS Platform Administration  Certification Questions pool by charging some fee.   How genuine are these websites to buy the Questions pool to crack this exam, similar to these below links I saw lot of links in google who are offering Questions on Certification.   (Editor's note: Links to unauthorized content have been removed.)   Can any one suggest, whether by preparing these pool of questions will be helpful to crack the exam (or) does any one of you guys know any other  genuine good websites where i can get pool of questions (or) any other best suggestions you guys suggest in this short time to prepare and crack this exam.   I would really appreciate for your valuable inputs and suggestions   Thank you all in Advance    ... View more

Hello friends   am encountering with below error sometimes when am running any sas code for long time. The error does not comes everytime, it occurs randomly. As per my knowledge this error should go away when we normally restart PC, but it does not go.   SAS Enterprise Guide 7.1 has stopped working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.Please close the program ---> Close the program   Some times If I run any single job for 1/2 hour or more than that or when running two or more jobs this error occurs.   Some times when I run same jobs it wont throw the error.   Some times when I run single job for 1/2 hour also error occurs   I tried to trouble the shoot issue by restarting my PC, by renaming 7.1 version folder, by renaming recovery.xml..etc..but still am getting that error some times. even I tried uninstalling complete sas and reinstalled it, but still the issue is occuring.   when am running the same codes in batch mode its working fine. Anyone has faced similar kind of issue before, your inputs would help me alot   Thank you all in advance   ... View more

Hello Friends,   I need your help in connecting from SAS 9.4 to Hadoop.   I never worked before with SAS connecting Hadoop   I would appreciate if any one can assist me with the step by step Instructions for connecting from SAS to Hadoop. and how to pull the Data from Hadoop to SAS and from SAS to Hadoop.   Thank you all in Advance   ... View more