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SAS Employee kwu
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I would like to know how SAS proc sql process a query and see what type of join it performs and if I should use a proc sql or a data step.

Any information about the sql query optimizer, or how optimizer comes up the execution plan would be a great help.
Thanks in advance.
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chang_y_chung_hotmail_com
Obsidian | Level 7
There is undocumented _method option to the proc sql statement. See also Kent's note at
http://support.sas.com/techsup/technote/ts553.html

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