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amorts
Calcite | Level 5
Hi All, I am new to SAS EG and don’t have access to Data Flux. I would like to run some basic data profiling (min, max, count, Null values etc.) against a group of tables which exist in SAS. I have come across bits and pieces of code online but none seem to be complete and provided in a way that can be easily used. I would imagine it’s a very common task and it would be time consuming to hand code which is what I would like to avoid. I want to provide a table name and for the code to run some basic checks and output the results based upon the table structure and data types. Thanks for your help
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RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

Proc means, proc freq.  You might also use SQL for some other checks.  Plenty of documentation and examples out there including the SAS documentation:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/66703/HTML/default/viewer.htm#procstat_freq_syn...

amorts
Calcite | Level 5
Hi, thanks for the response. I have tried using it without any specifications beyond the dataset like this:
proc freq data=library.tablename
run;
And I get the following error:
ERROR: File library.tablename.DATA does not exist.
ERROR: The metadata for the table/view library.tablename does not exist.
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, (, ALPHA, CHARTYPE, CLASSDATA, CLM, COMPLETETYPES, CSS, CV, DATA,
DESCEND, DESCENDING, DESCENDTYPES, EXCLNPWGT, EXCLNPWGTS, EXCLUSIVE, FW, IDMIN, KURTOSIS, LCLM, MAX, MAXDEC, MEAN,
MEDIAN, MIN, MISSING, MODE, N, NDEC, NMISS, NOLABELS, NONOBS, NOPRINT, NOTHREADS, NOTRAP, NWAY, ORDER, P1, P10, P20,
P25, P30, P40, P5, P50, P60, P70, P75, P80, P90, P95, P99, PCTLDEF, PRINT, PRINTALL, PRINTALLTYPES, PRINTIDS,
PRINTIDVARS, PROBT, Q1, Q3, QMARKERS, QMETHOD, QNTLDEF, QRANGE, RANGE, SKEWNESS, STACKODS, STACKODSOUTPUT, STDDEV,
STDERR, SUM, SUMSIZE, SUMWGT, T, THREADS, UCLM, USS, VAR, VARDEF.
ERROR 202-322: The option or parameter is not recognized and will be ignored.
As my SAS set up and permissions on new I wanted to check if this could be related?
Reeza
Super User

In EG use the TASKS item, Characterize Data.

 

 

Tasks>Describe>Characterize Data.

 

amorts
Calcite | Level 5
Thank you. That seems to be working now although is taking a long time.

I'll take a look into how I can't reduce the time it takes.

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