option validvarname=any; proc sql; select customer as "Customer Name"n, amount as "Transaction Amount"n format=Dollar10.2 from sq.transactionfull where amount>1000 and service ne 'University' order by 2 desc; quit; What you should actually do:   option validvarname=V7; proc sql; create table temporary as select customer label="Customer Name", amount label= "Transaction Amount" format=Dollar10.2 from sq.transactionfull where amount>1000 and service ne 'University' order by 2 desc; quit; proc print data=temporary labels; run; SQL doesn't have the concept of labels, SAS does, they are powerful and help you out. If you're using SAS regularly, it's worth understanding them and how to use them.   @xun1 wrote:   OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 68 69 proc sql; 70 select Customer as "Customer Name", _______________ 22 71 Amount as "Transaction Amount" format=DOLLAR10.2 ____________________ 22 ERROR 22-322: Expecting a name.   72 from sq.transactionfull 73 where Amount > 1000 and Service ne 'University' 74 order by Amount desc; NOTE: PROC SQL set option NOEXEC and will continue to check the syntax of statements. 75 title "Large Non-Educational Transactions"; 76 quit; NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors. NOTE: PROCEDURE SQL used (Total process time): real time 0.00 seconds user cpu time 0.00 seconds system cpu time 0.00 seconds memory 225.59k OS Memory 19104.00k Timestamp 09/08/2023 02:25:41 PM Step Count 154 Switch Count 1 Page Faults 0 Page Reclaims 17 Page Swaps 0 Voluntary Context Switches 7 Involuntary Context Switches 0 Block Input Operations 0 Block Output Operations 16   77 78 79 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK; 89       ... View more