Hi. I have a table with categories that I need to merge into another table table. Unfortunately for me, there are no common columns to merge by. Can this be done? I need each row (from table1) to merge with every row in my second table. Does anyone have suggestions on how I may do this? I have over 10,000 rows from my first table that I must add from table 2. Here are a few records and an example of my expected output: Thank you for any help!
Table 1 | |
ID | GEO |
22454 | C56 |
845880 | C37 |
842387 | C19 |
Table 2 |
PID_Item |
LEF |
FEH |
PHE |
MOH |
Output: | ||
ID | GEO | PID_Item |
22454 | C56 | LEF |
22454 | C56 | FEH |
22454 | C56 | PHE |
22454 | C56 | MOH |
845880 | C37 | LEF |
845880 | C37 | FEH |
845880 | C37 | PHE |
845880 | C37 | MOH |
842387 | C19 | LEF |
842387 | C19 | FEH |
842387 | C19 | PHE |
842387 | C19 | MOH |
I concur with @PaigeMiller
You just need an extra ORDER BY for the grouped results-
proc sql;
create table want as
select a.*, pid_item
from one a, two
order by id;
quit;
I need each row (from table1) to merge with every row in my second table.
This is called a Cartesian Join, and can be done in PROC SQL as follows:
proc sql;
create table want as select * from table1,table2;
quit;
I concur with @PaigeMiller
You just need an extra ORDER BY for the grouped results-
proc sql;
create table want as
select a.*, pid_item
from one a, two
order by id;
quit;
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