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I have the following two data sets that looks like:

 

IDXYZ
4242329
5423136
6504342
7433121
8504428
9424930

and 

IDW
160
278
393
443
598
697
783
851
983
1042
1163
1295
1346
1472

I want to merge these for only complete information. I.e. I want to keep all of the ID's for the first data set and create a new column W which comes from the second data set. My desired result looks like this:

IDXYZW
424232943
542313698
650434297
743312183
850442851
942493083

How can I achieve this result?

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Jagadishkatam
Amethyst | Level 16

please try the below code

 

proc sort data=tableA;
by id;
run;

proc sort data=tableB;
by id;
run;

data want;
merge tableA(in=a) tableB(in=b);
by id;
if a;
run;
Thanks,
Jag

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Jagadishkatam
Amethyst | Level 16

please try the below code

 

proc sort data=tableA;
by id;
run;

proc sort data=tableB;
by id;
run;

data want;
merge tableA(in=a) tableB(in=b);
by id;
if a;
run;
Thanks,
Jag
sasprogramming
Quartz | Level 8

That works thanks!

Is this what is called an 'inner join'? If so how would I modify the code for an 'outer join'?