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To get the latest dataset in the Library

Started ‎10-15-2014 by
Modified ‎10-05-2015 by
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libname lib sqlsvr dsn=EIS schema=SYS user="username" password="password"  READBUFF=1000;

 

proc sql /*outobs=1*/ noprint;

create table a as select modify_date, NAME into :cif separated by ' '

from Libname.TABLES where NAME LIKE "table_name%" order by modify_date desc;

proc sort; by modify_date;

quit;

 

data _null_;

set a end=last;

if last;

call symput('outy',compress(name));

run;

 

Macro variable "OUTY" will contain the name of the latest dataset.

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