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Osebeyo
Fluorite | Level 6

Hi,

I have two table in my sas library. Table 1 and Table 2 below and from the two tables I want to be abler to add an extra column to table 1 to make another table; table 3 below. Is there a faster way of doing this in SAS, any help will be most appreciated.

Table 1.

obs     site id    

1          256

2          301

3          457

4          457

5          323

6          421

7          256

8          301

9          301

10        421 

Table 2.

site id     site name

256          ebay

301          yahoo

457          ebay

323          msn

421          msn

Table 3.

obs     site id     site name

1          256          ebay

2          301          yahoo

3          457          ebay

4          457          ebay

5          323          msn

6          421          msn

7          256          ebay

8          301          yahoo

9          301          yahoo

10        421          msn 

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art297
Opal | Level 21

One way would be to use proc sql to simply join the two tables.  e.g.,

proc sql noprint;

  create table table3 as

    select a.*, b.sitename

      from table1 as a,

           table2 as b

        where a.siteid=b.siteid

  ;

quit;

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art297
Opal | Level 21

One way would be to use proc sql to simply join the two tables.  e.g.,

proc sql noprint;

  create table table3 as

    select a.*, b.sitename

      from table1 as a,

           table2 as b

        where a.siteid=b.siteid

  ;

quit;

Osebeyo
Fluorite | Level 6

Thanks Art, i will apply this now.

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