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A node with a dataset-like icon with the name of a macro variable.  When created, this node is listed with other avaiable datasets and dataviews in the process flow or project.  When this "dataset" is assigned to a task the dataset defined in the macro variable is used in the sas code generated byt he task.  If implemented as purely a macro variable with a dataset's name, then the linked-to dataset's indexes will available to the procedure statement.

 

One example of code that can't exist using EG and the Query Builder task:

%let dataset=SAShelp.CARS;

proc sql;
  select model
    from &dataset;
quit;

In a way of speaking, its like a view of a dataset implemented in EG. 

 

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BeverlyBrown
Community Manager
Status changed to: Not Planned