One-to-One Merging
Overview
In
Reading SAS Data Sets, you learned how to use the SET statement
to read an existing SAS data set. You can also use multiple SET
statements in a DATA step to combine data sets. This is called
one-to-one merging (or combining). In one-to-one merging you can
read different data sets, or you can read the same data set more
than once, as if you were reading from separate data sets.
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General form, basic DATA step
for one-to-one reading:
DATA
output-SAS-data-set;
SET
SAS-data-set-1;
SET
SAS-data-set-2;
RUN;
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How One-to-One Merging Selects Data
When you perform ...
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