Displaying Integrity Constraints for a Table

Overview

Sometimes you want to add data to a table but you are not sure what integrity constraints, if any, the table has. To display only the integrity constraints for a specified table, use a DESCRIBE TABLE CONSTRAINTS statement. (The DESCRIBE TABLE statement, which is discussed earlier in this chapter, lists both a CREATE TABLE statement and the table's integrity constraints in the SAS log.)
Note: Some versions of SAS display information about integrity constraints in output as well as in the SAS log.
General form, DESCRIBE TABLE CONSTRAINTS statement:
DESCRIBE TABLE CONSTRAINTS table-name-1<, ... table-name-n>;
Here is an explanation of the syntax:
table-name
specifies the table to be ...

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