About merge

[Jianan_luna]

For this question, I think it's a one-to-many merge. So I chose 3 as my answer. Can you please explain why the answer is 5? Thanks so much

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

You are correct that this is one-to-many.

The result of a one-to-many though usually reflects the number of records in the many.

This is small enough I suggest actually typing the code, though you might be able to copy and paste to your editor as I can't since you posted a picture, and run the code.

data  agetable;
   input name $ age;
datalines;
Bob 12
Sue  15
;
data  foodtable;
   input name $ food $;
datalines;
Bob Pizza
Bob Cupcakes
Bob Burgers
Sue Grapes
Sue Brownies
;

data both;
   merge agetable
         foodtable
   ;
   by name;
run;

You might also experiment with the way the result table looks if you change the order of the two sets on the Merge statement to verify that the same number of records results and what the order of variables in the data set might be.