Hey everyone! I succesfully created a SAS table with the code below but what I need/want to do now is add another column/variable that is equal to variables One - Two. Help please!
proc sql;
create table work.combined as
select
a. Number,
a. County,
a. Counts,
a. Sickness,
a. One,
a. OverallSickness,
b. Number,
b. Two
from
today a,
yesterday b
where
a.Number = b.Number;
quit;
In general you don't add variables to an existing dataset.
Just make a new dataset. Simple in regular SAS code.
data new_table;
set combined;
new_var=one-two;
run;
Or if you want to stick with SQL syntax.
proc sql;
create table new_table as
select *,one-two as new_var
from combined
;
quit;
Or just make it when you make the dataset.
proc sql;
create table work.combined as
select
a.Number
,a.County
,a.Counts
,a.Sickness
,a.One
,a.OverallSickness
,b.Number
,b.Two
,a.One - b.Two as new_var
from today a
, yesterday b
where a.Number = b.Number
;
quit;
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