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Your original code was only referencing one dataset named A but assigning the alias B to it because you wrote
from A B
where ...
To see that type of mistake in action try this code:
data a b;
set sashelp.class;
if sex='M' then output a ;
else output b;
run;
proc sql ;
select a.*,b.*
from a b
;
quit;
Instead use
from A , B
where ...
or
from A
inner join B
on ....
> Could someone let me know where my code went wrong, I keep getting dataset a variables. That's it. Where is the set b?
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