In teradata, you can see the table definition by running a show table xxx to get the contents on how it was created. In SAS you can also run this same code that writes out the contents to a table or perform a describe xxx which produces the code in a log. what i was looking to do is utilize SAS to read this code to recreate the table to perform a comparison on another table. The columns could always change so i want to make it as dynamic as possible. Waht would be the most efficient way to build a new table off of the describe statement.
If you just want to create a new table that has the same structure as the old table, you can use
create table newTable like oldTable;
See also this sample code here:
data newCars;
seqNr = _n_;
set sashelp.cars;
run;
proc sql;
create index seqNr on newcars;
describe table newCars;
create table newCars2 like newCars;
describe table newCars;
quit;
Bruno
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