topic Re: Proc Datasets in SAS Procedures

Proc Datasets

Saket_90 — Tue, 10 May 2016 10:18:50 GMT

Hi All,

I am new to SAS hence can someone help me to understand how is Proc Dataset diiferent from Proc Contents, Proc copy, proc append as it has all the capability.

Also Which one is between proc dataset and (proc Contents, Proc copy, proc append).

Thanks and regards,

Saket

Re: Proc Datasets

LinusH — Tue, 10 May 2016 10:41:54 GMT

Yes, they overlap somewhat in capabilities. When it does, it's matter of personal liking which PROC to chose.

Generally, PROC DATASETS lets you change data set attributes, including indexes/constraints.

PROC CONTENTS is doing only reports.

PROC COPY/APPEND works on physical data (and yes, you could do similar things in DATASETS).

To add, you could many of these things in PROC SQL as well...

Re: Proc Datasets

ballardw — Tue, 10 May 2016 14:28:23 GMT

Proc datasets also lets you change variable attributes such as format and label or rename variables.