Documenting Integrity Constraints

Overview

To view the descriptor portion of your data, including the integrity constraints that you have placed on a data set, you can use the CONTENTS statement in the DATASETS procedure.
General form, DATASETS procedure with the CONTENTS statement:
PROC DATASETS LIB=libref <NOLIST>;
CONTENTS DATA=SAS-data-set;
QUIT;
Here is an explanation of the syntax:
libref
is the library in which the data set is stored.
NOLIST
suppresses the directory listing.
SAS-data-set
is the name of the data set that you want information about.
Note: The CONTENTS statement in the DATASETS procedure results in the same information as the CONTENTS procedure.

Example

The following code displays information ...

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