At SAS Explore, which was held in Las Vegas in September 2023, the future of SAS 9 was clarified in https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/2023/09/29/sas-9-and-sas-eg/.
Looking for a SAS-related job?
There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK, India, Philippines and the USA and the links are open to all site visitors:
| Country | Jobs Advertised | From Company |
|---|---|---|
| USA | SAS DI developer permanent positions | BECU |
| Europe | Pharmaceutical contract positions | ClinChoice |
| Europe | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
| UK | Pharmaceutical contract positions | ClinChoice |
| UK | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
| Philippines | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
| UK | SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| UK | Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| India | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.
Recruiters looking for candidates
I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.
If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:
Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 04Oct2023 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.
The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:
| Position | Region | Percentage of Membership | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian Sub-continent | 36.3% | 303 |
| 2 | The Americas | 23.0% | 192 |
| 3 | UK | 19.9% | 166 |
| 4 | Europe | 14.1% | 118 |
| 5 | Rest of the World | 6.7% | 56 |
VIEWS News issue 73 has now been published and in Q3 as the title states!
Supporting all Foundation SAS programmers, this newsletter continues to bring you information to make the most of SAS 9. This newsletter issue includes more ideas about plotting multiple values and a book review from LeRoy Bessler, Nina L Werner gives us another SAS tip, and Richard Carson continues his discussion about configuring of SAS processes without editing them in the third part of a series of articles about KT. As usual I have publicised some SAS‑related events for the next few months, and I have also added some more SAS formats, options and functions that you may or may not have come across before, but you might find interesting, and even useful.
If you would like to contribute an article, to re-visit and improve an existing article, or just discuss the possibility of doing so, please feel free to send an email to me at view-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk or phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk. Publication deadlines are the 14th day of February, May, August and November each year.
To be able to read this and all previous issues you will need to follow these steps:
Enjoy!……………..Phil
Looking for a SAS-related job?
There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK, India, Philippines and the USA and the links are open to all site visitors:
| Country | Jobs Advertised | From Company |
|---|---|---|
| USA | SAS DI developer permanent positions | BECU |
| Europe | Pharmaceutical contract positions | ClinChoice |
| Europe | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
| UK | Pharmaceutical contract positions | ClinChoice |
| UK | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
| UK | SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| UK | Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| India | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.
Recruiters looking for candidates
I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.
If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:
Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 02Aug2023 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.
The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:
| Position | Region | Percentage of Membership | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian Sub-continent | 36.4% | 301 |
| 2 | The Americas | 22.8% | 189 |
| 3 | UK | 19.9% | 165 |
| 4 | Europe | 14.1% | 117 |
| 5 | Rest of the World | 6.8% | 56 |
Looking for a SAS-related job?
There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK and India, and the links are open to all site visitors:
| Country | Jobs Advertised | From Company |
|---|---|---|
| UK | SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| UK | Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| India | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.
Recruiters looking for candidates
I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.
If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:
Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 02Aug2023 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.
The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:
| Position | Region | Percentage of Membership | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian Sub-continent | 36.4% | 300 |
| 2 | The Americas | 22.7% | 187 |
| 3 | UK | 19.9% | 164 |
| 4 | Europe | 14.2% | 117 |
| 5 | Rest of the World | 6.8% | 56 |
VIEWS News issue 72 has now been published and in Q2 as the title states!
Even though Foundation SAS is being pushed to one side by SAS Viya, this newsletter continues to bring you information about making the most of SAS 9. This newsletter issue includes another way to draw butterfly plots from LeRoy Bessler, I asked ChatGPT to write a SAS program, and Richard Carson continues his discussion about configuring of SAS processes without editing them in the second part of a series of articles about KT. As usual I have publicised some SAS-related events for the next few months, and I have also added some more SAS formats, options and functions that you may or may not have come across before, but you might find interesting, and even useful.
If you would like to contribute an article, to re-visit and improve an existing article, or just discuss the possibility of doing so, please feel free to send an email to me at view-uk@hollandnumerics.org.uk or phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk. Publication deadlines are the 14th day of February, May, August and November each year.
To be able to read this and all previous issues you will need to follow these steps:
Enjoy!……………..Phil
Looking for a SAS-related job?
There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK and India, and the links are open to all site visitors:
| Country | Jobs Advertised | From Company |
|---|---|---|
| UK | SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| UK | Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| India | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.
Recruiters looking for candidates
I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.
If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:
Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 07Jun2023 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.
The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:
| Position | Region | Percentage of Membership | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian Sub-continent | 36.3% | 298 |
| 2 | The Americas | 22.8% | 187 |
| 3 | UK | 19.9% | 163 |
| 4 | Europe | 14.3% | 117 |
| 5 | Rest of the World | 6.8% | 56 |
Looking for a SAS-related job?
There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK and India, and the links are open to all site visitors:
| Country | Jobs Advertised | From Company |
|---|---|---|
| UK | SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| UK | Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| India | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.
Recruiters looking for candidates
I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.
If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:
Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 07Jun2023 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.
The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:
| Position | Region | Percentage of Membership | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian Sub-continent | 36.6% | 298 |
| 2 | The Americas | 22.8% | 186 |
| 3 | UK | 19.6% | 160 |
| 4 | Europe | 14.2% | 116 |
| 5 | Rest of the World | 6.7% | 55 |
To me retirement only means not earning a salary from my SAS programming, which will, from now, become a pure hobby. However, to program in SAS AND to be able to get access to all of its components, including Enterprise Guide, batch processing, and the Program Editor, the SAS licence has to be paid for. For me this would amount to paying around GBP 3,000 a year, and so I have drawn up a list of ways that you can contribute to that total, but at the same time benefit from my 40+ years of SAS programming, and 30+ years as an independent SAS consultant, working in the banking, insurance, IT, pharmaceutical, HR and marketing business sectors, and on IBM mainframe, OS/2, VAX, Unix, Windows and Linux.
Any excess income will be used to extend my SAS licence into the following year. I’m planning to use this income from September 2024, so we now have a few months to raise sufficient funds.
The following are grouped into group¹ (for companies or collaborating individuals) and individual² options:
Looking for a SAS-related job?
There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK and India, and the links are open to all site visitors:
| Country | Jobs Advertised | From Company |
|---|---|---|
| UK | SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| UK | Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| India | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.
Recruiters looking for candidates
I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.
If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:
Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 03May2023 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.
The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:
| Position | Region | Percentage of Membership | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian Sub-continent | 36.6% | 298 |
| 2 | The Americas | 22.9% | 186 |
| 3 | UK | 19.6% | 159 |
| 4 | Europe | 14.3% | 116 |
| 5 | Rest of the World | 6.8% | 55 |
My current SAS contract will end on 11Apr2023, but my SAS Software licence will expire on 31May2023. The second date is probably more pertinent, as, without income, I’m not prepared to finance an annual software renewal without a very good reason (or a sponsor!), and the lack of that licence will necessitate me retiring from the SAS world!
Let’s be absolutely clear at this point in time, I’m not worried about retiring, but I said many years ago, when I passed the UK pension age, I will leave the final decision to my clients!
After 36 years in the SAS world in 2017 I received a Lifetime Achievement Award from SAS UK, which prompted my wife to suggest that I should retire immediately, as, she said, SAS UK now reckon I’m not going to do anything more! However, at the time I felt I had so much more to do!!
Now after 42 years in the SAS world I’m not sure now whether you are shouting “Don’t Retire Now!” or not, but, if you still need to ask me SAS-related questions, you will have to let me know soon, and the best way would be to subscribe to [sas.answers @ Holland Numerics] before the end of May 2023. This permits multiple SAS-related questions to be asked using up to 5 email addresses for a calendar month. Response times are guaranteed within 48 hours. If just 5 companies subscribe for a single month, or a single company subscribes for 5 months, or some combination in-between, then I’ll be able to continue for another year. It is that simple.
I’m currently working on my last(?) SAS-related book with the provisional title of “Memoirs of a Power SAS User”, detailing important SAS and more general software-related facts I’ve found useful during my 40+ years working with SAS software, but this will, of course, be made more difficult without an active SAS licence.
My final, and important, fact for potential subscribers and employers is that in several previous SAS contracts I have been budgeted, when working off-site, at 1.5 FTE (full-time employee), because I can get SAS work done with fewer delays!
So, my retirement is in your hands!
Looking for a SAS-related job?
There are a number of SAS-related jobs in the SAS Jobs Listing this month in the UK and India, and the links are open to all site visitors:
| Country | Jobs Advertised | From Company |
|---|---|---|
| UK | SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| UK | Graduate SAS consultancy permanent positions | Pazikas Group |
| India | Pharmaceutical permanent positions | ClinChoice |
Please use the links in the SAS Jobs Listing to apply for these positions. All recruiters have contact details and links to their web sites on each job post.
Recruiters looking for candidates
I’m always looking for new recruiters to post SAS-related jobs on this site covering India, UK, the Americas (particularly USA), Europe and the Rest of the World.
If you have a regular supply of SAS jobs in any of these regions, then there is a free trial which is open to all recruiters, but with 2 simple rules:
Please register for Free membership, and then send your jobs to phil@hollandnumerics.org.uk before 05Apr2023 to be included in this post next month! You will be manually upgraded to a Recruiter member if you’ve never taken part in this free trial before.
The current regional breakdown of registered blog members is as follows, but note that the SAS Jobs Listing is open to all site visitors:
| Position | Region | Percentage of Membership | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indian Sub-continent | 36.7% | 300 |
| 2 | The Americas | 22.7% | 186 |
| 3 | UK | 19.8% | 162 |
| 4 | Europe | 14.2% | 116 |
| 5 | Rest of the World | 6.6% | 54 |
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