topic Permanent and Temporary data sets in New SAS User

Permanent and Temporary data sets

San_0611 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:30:19 GMT

libname cert 'file location';

data work.tds cert.acc1 cert.acc2;

set sas.emp;

run;

In the above program how many permanent and temporary data sets are read.

Please help .

Thanks in advance.

Re: Permanent and Temporary data sets

RW9 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:42:20 GMT

Well, your question "In the above program how many permanent and temporary data sets are read." - there is only one dataset "read", thats on the set line. The library sas is not shown however, so can't say about that. I also don't think the question is about "read" unless its a trick question. The reason is there are 3 datasets "written", one to temporary work area, 2 others are written to the physical library cert.

Re: Permanent and Temporary data sets

San_0611 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:45:13 GMT

Sorry , the question is how many temporary and permanent data sets
are there in above program .

Re: Permanent and Temporary data sets

RW9 — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:47:26 GMT

As above:
work - this is a temporary SAS created library

cert - this is created by you in the code and points to the physical location, so anything saved into there is permanent.

sas - this is not shown in the code, so I can't tell you.

So 2 permanent, 1 temporary, and 1 unknown.