Logic behind left join ??

atul_desh — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:17:50 GMT

Yes I know I should write as below :

"on a.ManagerID=b.ID;"

but when i'm writting as below how i'm getting the output can someone please explain logic how output calculated

data ds1;
input Name $ ID ManagerID;
cards;
Smith 123 456
Robert 456 .
William 222 456
Daniel 777 222
Cook 383 222
;
run;

proc sql;
select a.*, b.Name as Manager_name from ds1 as a left join ds1 as b
on b.ManagerID=a.ID;
quit;

Output :

SAS Output

Name ID ManagerID Manager_name

Re: Logic behind left joint ??

Kurt_Bremser — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:04:20 GMT

Which of the output lines surprise you? All follow your condition.

The first, fourth and fifth records of your datasets are taken as is because there are no matching ManagerID's.

The second and third each find two matches, and the names from those appear in Manager_name.

Unless an explicit order is specified, the order of the output is determined by the internal mechanism of SQL.

Which seems to take the key of the left side in the join for the order.