My first was 1991 in New Orleans. SAS Global Forum 2016 will be my 11th SUGI/SGF.
Most memorable moment was SUGI 21 in Chicago. I was giving a presentation on a macro to pass in a libref and data set name and it would create a flatfile using the SQL dictionary tables. The large ballroom was standing room only. During the Q&A session at one point someone asked me if there was an option to control the size of the macro symbol table, and for the life of me I could not remember the name of the option. I knew it, just couldn't retrieve it. So I finally said "yes, there is an option but I can't recall it, so go look it up." It got a huge laugh, but I was still a little embarrassed. BTW, it's MSYMTABMAX.
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