topic Betreff: Base SAS Dataset Size in SAS Programming

Base SAS Dataset Size

sht — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:10:02 GMT

Hi Team,

Please let me know how to find size of SAS dataset through base SAS code

Thank you.

andreas_lds — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:22:06 GMT

Untested:

proc sql;
  select libname, memname, filesize
  from sashelp.vtable;
quit;

Reeza — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:31:18 GMT

I don't think the filesize in vtable is accurate, usually, I've queried my OS to get the file listing and extract the size from that.

What is your OS? Can you run an X command, SYSEXEC?

ballardw — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:32:08 GMT

Do you want size in number of bytes the file occupies or the number of records that are in the data set?

Proc contents data=<your dataset name goes here>;

run;

will tell you number of observations (records) and lots of other information about the dataset.

sht — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 07:50:54 GMT

Hi,

I want size in number of bytes.

OS is windows7