Chris Hemedinger

I made this design and put it on a shirt. May have some stickers made too! #SASUsers #includeeveryone

@LaurieFleming The default has been 1940 since M7! But Viya 3.5 was caught in the last century when the calendar turned.

@cjdinger Yearcutoff has just bitten me in the arse. All SAS/DI jobs have etls_starttime set to %sysfunc(datetime(), datetime.) instead of datetime19. So I woke up this morning to every one of our ETL jobs thinking it was 1926. Fortunately only one failed… 😢

At #SESUG2025, Chris Hemedinger (@cjdinger) is bringing the laughs with his keynote talk "Confessions of a SAS Dummy"! From quirky pet projects to productivity hacks, @SASsoftware sneaks into all corners of life. Get ready to laugh, learn, & embrace your own inner SAS Dummy

@LaurieFleming @HomesAtMetacoda @SASsoftware It's from the year I joined SAS!

@HomesAtMetacoda @cjdinger @SASsoftware I’ve found a relic - how much do you think this is worth? I could be rich!

From 🐦 chirps to SAS charts. See how SAS' @cjdinger used BirdNET-PI and SAS to track and analyze 140,000 backyard bird songs! 🎵 2.sas.com/61854bGOL

@PatrickAThompsn Were you doing this at the Try Zone? Maybe you didn't say "please"? 😉

I asked SAS Viya copilot to interpret the meaning of a histogram and it gave an error so it appears my job is safe (for now) #SASInnovate

@LaurieFleming I don't know why -- if that's an S3 service-side check. When I have situations like this I try to refresh the token just-in-time rather than use an hourly cron job.

@cjdinger proc s3 problem: my token expires and is refreshed every hour on the hour. That would be a tiny problem, but if an s3 call spans the hour, as it did at 3pm today, it checks the timestamp on termination and throws an error. Do you know why?

@hcksqtjimduggan I'm not familiar with ".XLSL" extension -- it's not something you can save natively in Excel, if that's the application that your using. How was this created? cc @SAS_Cares

Niche tweet but how has no one figured out a way to take a .xlsl file and have it automatically convert to a SAS data set without have to manually input stats code

@LaurieFleming @SAS_Cares *cron

@LaurieFleming @SAS_Cares I'm also using Proc Http and libname JSON thousands of times per day. Well, my crown jobs do.

@SAS_Cares @cjdinger In days gone by, I would’ve put sort or sql as my most-used procedures. These days it’s http. We’re getting parquet and JSON files from one of our cloud hosts, and one big table will have hundreds of thousands of files. 1 call per file, at around 3/second…

@SASsoftware hat tip to @vivasasvegas!

Ring in 2025 with this fun SAS visualization from a SAS community member. Want to see more? 2.sas.com/6011v2LVh 💫 #SASusers

@LuisaBorrell Are you running into 32-bit/64-bit issues? I advise using LIBNAME XLSX or PROC IMPORT/EXPORT with DBMS=XLSX wherever possible. For Access you might need to use LIBNAME PCFILES or DBMS=ACCESSCS. See blogs.sas.com/content/sasdum… cc @SAS_Cares

SASsy question for any SAS user in the house: Is there any fix for the issue with the import/export wizard for Excel/ACCESS e-files in SAS 9.4 64-bit aside from using PROC IMPORT/EXPORT? Any insights you can provide would be highly appreciated. #EpiTwitter #StatsTwitter

@chris52brooks @HomesAtMetacoda @SASsoftware Found a source SAS/Publish file from 1995. Markup for OLE Automation methods in SAS/AF.

@cjdinger @HomesAtMetacoda @SASsoftware SAS/Publish? I’ve learned something new today!

.@cjdinger asks "Is #SAS a #programming language?" It depends on the context right? Does it refer to the company, the product(s) or the language. What are your thoughts & as Chris asks, are you a SAS fan or a SAS snob? 😉 #SASviya #SASusers @SASsoftware blogs.sas.com/content/sasdum…

@chris52brooks @HomesAtMetacoda @SASsoftware Fun fact: the first books I wrote for SAS in 1993 were built using SAS/Publish, a markup language that compiled into print ready pages. All written using SAS!

@HomesAtMetacoda @cjdinger @SASsoftware I like to think I’ve done some pretty inventive things with SAS in my time but Desktop Publishing would have been a step too far!

@RobertAllison__ And you don't have to "wonder" what cookies are used. You can select the "Manage Cookies" and also use your browser to see exactly what's going on.

@RobertAllison__ Hey Robert, cookie consent is standard practice for most websites. It's required by law in some regions, and is just best practice everywhere else. At SAS, cookies are mainly used for functional behavior and journey tracking.

Kind of annoying - SAS's web pages (such as communities.sas.com and blogs.sas.com) have started making you click to "accept cookies". I wonder what cookies they're keeping on us? Were they keeping cookies before? smdh...

Which SAS skill should you get an award for? 🤔

Using OneDrive and SharePoint Online along with SAS? Unlock new power and flexibility by using Microsoft Graph APIs from your SAS programs. Join me for this #SASwebinar LIVE August 1 at 11 am ET. Register now: 2.sas.com/60119Uikh #SASusers #m365

@kierriebeentjie Not sure which output you're referencing (Data, HTML, Listing, Log). For Listing or Log, try adding OPTIONS PS=MAX and/or OPTIONS LS=MAX to your code. As @SAS_Cares recommends, the SAS community can help with advice too: communities.sas.com.

Hi there my Sas Output window's row height is too narrow for the text where can I change thus settung? Sas Enterprise Guide 7.1

@LaurieFleming @SAS_Cares _LAST_, _NULL_, and "auto naming" are a great resource for creating SAS trivia questions. go.documentation.sas.com/doc/en/lrcon/9…

@SAS_Cares Putting something into production using a feature I’ve only used for quick-and-dirty code before. I’ve got a DI transformation which writes out to a number of datasets, but doesn’t decide until near the end which one it needs. Solution? _last_. First time in 45 years…

@Domdedom4 @SAS_Cares The internal representation of a number uses the IEEE standard for floating point, but SAS formats can used to control number appearance in tables and reports. blogs.sas.com/content/sasdum…