topic Suppressing PROC SQL Output from the "Output Data" Tab in SAS Programming

Suppressing PROC SQL Output from the "Output Data" Tab

eer_seer — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:50:52 GMT

Good day all,

I have a SQL loop that is producing 10 tabs of data, one for each year I run for my loop. In a second step, I am UNIONing the data into a singular data set. While I want the data sets to populate the SAS library I've designated, I do not want those 10 data sets to show up in the output tab. What's the easiest way to suppress them, in a sql statement, from the "Output Data" tab?

Thanks.

Re: Suppressing PROC SQL Output from the "Output Data" Tab

Reeza — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:32:59 GMT

Wrap it in a CREATE TABLE statement then, or use NOPRINT. However, if you don't have a CREATE TABLE statement the results aren't stored anywhere.

proc sql;

create table want as
select * from 
(select....
union
select ...
union 
select ..

);

quit;

@eer_seer wrote:

Good day all,

I have a SQL loop that is producing 10 tabs of data, one for each year I run for my loop. In a second step, I am UNIONing the data into a singular data set. While I want the data sets to populate the SAS library I've designated, I do not want those 10 data sets to show up in the output tab. What's the easiest way to suppress them, in a sql statement, from the "Output Data" tab?

Thanks.

Re: Suppressing PROC SQL Output from the "Output Data" Tab

PGStats — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:32:20 GMT

Post your code so that we can show how to change it.

Re: Suppressing PROC SQL Output from the "Output Data" Tab

SASKiwi — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 01:34:45 GMT

The only way I know to suppress all tables appearing on the Enterprise Guide Output tab (I'm assuming that is what you are referring to) but still produce the tables is to change the limit of the number of datasets to output from the default 50 to 0 in the EG data settings.

Re: Suppressing PROC SQL Output from the "Output Data" Tab

PGStats — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 02:06:22 GMT

As @Reeza suggested, the way to prevent the tables from showing is to not create the tables in the first place. They can be created implicitly in a query, and concatenated with UNION ALL.