How to do one to one merging in SAS Enterprise Guide

[andreaszaras1]

Hello,

I have two data sets with three rows each and i want want to do one to one merge in Enterprise Guide using the GUI. How can i do that? In query builder such an option does nto exist. I do not want to use any code.

Thanks,

Andreas 

[TomKari · Accepted solution]

There really isn't any formal way, because SAS implements queries with SQL, which is dependent on keys for matching.

However, there is a rather iffy option. For each of your input tables, do a query, and create a new computed column / advance expression. In the expression, use

monotonic()

and name the column SeqNum or some such thing. This should put a sequential number into each row of the table. You can then do an inner join.

Note that the monotonic function isn't supported, to the best fo my knowledge. If you search the communities, you'll find a lot of discussion of it.

Tom

[andreaszaras1]

Thanks a lot,

That worked!

Andreas

[Reeza]

Do you not have a field to join on? Otherwise in query builder add a new table and then the join condition becomes available. 

The add a table and join options are above the column where the variables are listed.