topic Re: how to avoid warning message in SAS Programming

how to avoid warning message

thanikondharish — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:18:18 GMT

Data s1 ;
Input id age ;
Cards;
101 22
102 34
103 22
104 34
105 44
106 23
;

Data s2 ;
Input id sex $ ;
cards ;
101 M
102 F
103 M
105 M
106 F
107 M
;

Data s3 ;
Input id country $15. ;
cards ;
101 INDIA
102 USA
103 ENGLAND
104 INDIA
107 FRANCE
108 USA
;

proc sql ;
create table ex1 as
select * from s1,s2,s3 where s1.id=s2.id=s3.id;
quit;

if i run above program it gives matching data with warnings so how to avoid that warning

Re: how to avoid warning message

Amir — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:45:51 GMT

Hi,

SAS advise the following:

http://support.sas.com/kb/9/963.html

There are also a number of other suggestions contained in:

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/PROC-SQL-Warning-Variable-already-exists/td-p/70119

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Procedures/proc-sql-join-with-same-variable-names/td-p/48781

Regards,

Amir.

Re: how to avoid warning message

RW9 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 11:49:47 GMT

In a select clause you put the variables you want to keep on the output dataset. Using * is the equivalent of saying take everything from all contributing datasets, which means id from each datasets - which is why you get the warning. Avoid using * and code to select the data you actually want:

proc sql ;
  create table ex1 as
  select s1.id,
         s1.age,
         s2.sex,
         s3.country 
  from   s1,
         s2,
         s3 
  where  s1.id=s2.id=s3.id;
quit;

Re: how to avoid warning message

ballardw — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 15:17:32 GMT

I think we have referred to posting logs of results often enough that you should have posted to actual log with the warning instead of making us guess which warning you might be referring to.

And the warning involving the variable coming from both sets should tell you pretty clearly not to include variable(s) from both sets if you do not want the warning to appear.