Reeza provides the ideal solution, eliminating the need to create a new data set.
proc sql; update have1 as h1 set var2=(select var2 from have2 as h2 where h1.var1=h2.var1) where var1 in (select var1 from have2); quit;
I reckon the where statement only improves performance. If you're updating only a few values in a very large data set then this will significantly speed up the update. Definitely my favorite solution to the problem.
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