Introduction to Getting Information about Your SAS Data Sets
Purpose
As you create libraries
of SAS data sets, SAS generates and maintains information about where
the library is stored in your operating environment, how and when
the data sets were created, and how their contents are defined. Using
the DATASETS procedure, you can view this information without displaying
the contents of the data set or referring to additional documentation.
In this section, you
will learn how to get the following information about SAS libraries
and SAS data sets:
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names and types of SAS files that are included in a SAS library
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names and attributes for variables in SAS data sets
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summary information about storage parameters for the operating environment ...
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