I have a process that inserts data into a permanent table, after the insert, the permanent table has to be sorted. The should run about once a month.
I wrote a create table statement where the source and destination are the same permanent table and get the following error: "This CREATE TABLE statement recursively references the target table. A consequence of this is a possible data integrity problem."
I googled it and found there's an option to disable the warning, but I'm wondering if it's bad practice to leave it like this, and if so, how do I write the program so as to not risk data integirty.
Thanks in advance.
proc sql;
insert into perm_table
select * from source;
create table perm_table as
select * from perm_table
order by id;
quit;
Is there something wrong with using Proc Append and then Proc Sort?
proc append base=perm_table data=source;
run;
proc sort data=perm_table;
by id;
run;
Is there something wrong with using Proc Append and then Proc Sort?
proc append base=perm_table data=source;
run;
proc sort data=perm_table;
by id;
run;
No, I forget to use other procs sometimes because I'm more familiarized with sql.
Thank you.
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