Chris Hemedinger

SAS user engagement, recovering software developer, customer advocate, author, GitHub maintainer, dad of 3, Buffalo native in Raleigh. Opinions mine.

[Chris Hemedinger @cjdinger]

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

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

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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

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

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From 🐦 chirps to SAS charts. See how SAS' @cjdinger used BirdNET-PI and SAS to track and analyze 140,000 backyard bird songs! 🎵 https://t.co/kusJBGMf4d

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

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@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.

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@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

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@LaurieFleming @SAS_Cares *cron

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

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@SASsoftware hat tip to @vivasasvegas!

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@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 https://t.co/Dg1QqiCm9u cc @SAS_Cares

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

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@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!

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@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.

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@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.

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Which SAS skill should you get an award for? 🤔

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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: https://t.co/Lo0PjbYHW6 #SASusers #m365

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@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: https://t.co/8BPrBRXhNF.

[Chris Hemedinger @cjdinger]

@LaurieFleming @SAS_Cares _LAST_, _NULL_, and "auto naming" are a great resource for creating SAS trivia questions. https://t.co/pLVOZF6slm

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@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. https://t.co/s2B4Xh21Ij