topic Limiting the observations in SAS Programming

Limiting the observations

Siddhartha — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:30:40 GMT

Can we limit the observations while joining two datasets with common id x like x<30.
Could anyone help me which is efficient in joining the datasets, is it merge or proc sql.

Regards,
Sidhu

Re: Limiting the observations

SushilNayak — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:29:16 GMT

Hey Sid,
use the dataset options on the imcoming datasets @ merge step or from clause in sql. Based on data that you have got, you can yourself find out which technique would be better/efficient

data d1;
input id name $10.;
datalines;
10 sushil
20 sas
;;;
run;
data d2;
input id lname $10.;
datalines;
10 nayak
20 base
;;;
run;
data final;
merge d1(in=a firstobs=1 obs=1)
d2(in=b where=(id<20));
by id;
if a and b;
run;
proc print;run;

Things to learn and understand:
WHERE= dataset option usage and working in SQL and datastep

Hope this helps 🙂

Thanks!

Re: Limiting the observations

sbb — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:02:08 GMT

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