Blogging about all things SAS

We are currently trying to monitor some SAS queries against our new Star Schemas to see if we can make them go faster.

So I have been doing a bit of research to see whats out there to help us do the monitoring.

In my search I stumbled across this article:

 

Monitoring SAS^® through the Web

ABSTRACT
Monitoring SAS processes and SAS work space in a mutli-user environment, such as UNIX, is key in maintaining optimal performance. This paper will present the SAS Monitor, a tool which captures SAS resources and uses SAS to analyze and display this information via a Web browser. SAS Monitor is useful for SAS/UNIX administrators and informative for end users since the information can be widely distributed through an intranet. Even though SAS Monitor has been tested on Solaris, it can be adapted to other flavors of UNIX. This paper will explore and explain some of the techniques used in capturing and publishing SAS resources on the web.

They also provide example code for this at SAS Monitor – Source Code

 

Unfortunately the code is based upon Unix and we are running windows. So the search continues….

As an aside we are still building the Star Schema’s using SAS Datasets but we plan to test SAS SPDS vs Oracle as a repository for the Star Schemas at the end of the year to see which performs better. If one results in any noticable improvement we may move to it, as it will also solve any file locking issues we currently encounter with SAS Datasets. More on that later.