topic Re: Dictionary tables variable information ? in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Dictionary-tables-variable-information/m-p/197763#M305460 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If you look at the additional variable "Number of Deleted Observations" where logical and physical vary I think you'll get a better understanding of what is going on.</P><P></P><P>I believer you are likely looking for Logical for further processing.</P><P>Since are there are two types of counts then the count desired depends on what your are doing.</P><P></P><P>Unless you are doing manual operations on your data, such as delete row in Viewtable, you'll likely have both values the same.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:51:54 GMT ballardw 2015-08-12T19:51:54Z Dictionary tables variable information ? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Dictionary-tables-variable-information/m-p/197762#M305459 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>My understanding is Dictionary.tables and sashelp.vtable are the same. Am i right? If yes, I am using sashelp.vtable to retrieve certain information about the metadata. However, I am confused having seen two kinds of variables in the sashelp.vtable dataset. One has a name "Number of logical Observations" and the other with the name "Number of Physical Observations". </P><P>1. What is the difference between the two? </P><P>2. Which one is actually denotes the count of observations?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:11:07 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Dictionary-tables-variable-information/m-p/197762#M305459 Andygray 2015-08-12T19:11:07Z Re: Dictionary tables variable information ? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Dictionary-tables-variable-information/m-p/197763#M305460 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If you look at the additional variable "Number of Deleted Observations" where logical and physical vary I think you'll get a better understanding of what is going on.</P><P></P><P>I believer you are likely looking for Logical for further processing.</P><P>Since are there are two types of counts then the count desired depends on what your are doing.</P><P></P><P>Unless you are doing manual operations on your data, such as delete row in Viewtable, you'll likely have both values the same.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:51:54 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Dictionary-tables-variable-information/m-p/197763#M305460 ballardw 2015-08-12T19:51:54Z