Identifying people from a specific dataset in proc sql full join

[Walternate]

Hi,

I have two datasets that each have ID and a date variable. Dataset 1 also has Var1 (which is continous) and Dataset 2 also has Var2 (a dummy variable). 

Dataset 1

ID     Date     Var1

1      1/5/12     30

1       3/9/13    54

1      10/4/14    3

2      2/1/12      9

2      1/1/13     23

Dataset 2

ID     Date     Var2

1      1/5/12      0

1      2/7/12      0

1      3/9/13      1

2      2/1/12      1

2      4/3/12      1

3      4/5/13      1

3      10/4/13    1

The goal is to have for each ID/date combo as much information as possible--so ideally I'd want the values of both Var1 and Var2 on a given date, but if a person only has Var1 or Var2 on a given date, that should be displayed. Therefore, I joined them using proc sql full join on ID and date:

proc sql;

create table want as

select * from Dataset1 a

full join Dataset2 b

on (a.ID=b.ID) and (a.date=b.date);

quit;

This gave me the output dataset I wanted:

ID     Date     Var1      Var2

1      1/5/12     30          0

1      2/7/12                   0

1       3/9/13    54          1

1      10/4/14    3

2      2/1/12      9           1

2      4/3/12                   1

2      1/1/13     23

3      4/5/13                   1

3      10/4/13                 1

The issue is that there are some people like ID 3, who are only in Dataset 2 but not Dataset 1. Ideally, I'd like to exclude these people from my final output dataset altogether, but I'm not sure how to do that with a full outer join. Alternatively, if I just had a way of identifying which people came from Dataset 2 only, that would be helpful as well. 

Any help is much appreciated. 

[DavidPope]

I didn't find the proc sql code you included produced the results you stated. 

However, this version of the code produced what you stated:

proc sql;
create table want as
select coalesce(a.id, b.id) 'id',
coalesce(a.date, b.date) 'date',
a.var1, b.var2
from temp1 a
full join temp2 b
on (a.ID=b.ID) and (a.date=b.date);

quit;

AND if you add this where clause it eliminates the records from the 2nd data set that you stated you didn't want included.

proc sql;
create table want as
select coalesce(a.id, b.id) 'id',
coalesce(a.date, b.date) 'date',
a.var1, b.var2
from temp1 a
full join temp2 b
on (a.ID=b.ID) and (a.date=b.date)
where coalesce(a.id,b.id) in (select id from temp1);
quit;

Hope this helps,

David