Summary

Statements

BY by-variable;
identifies corresponding observations in a master data set and a transaction data set. By-variable specifies one or more variables to use with the BY statement.
MODIFY master-SAS-data-set transaction-SAS-data-set <UPDATEMODE=MISSINGCHECK|NOMISSINGCHECK>;
replaces the values of variables in one SAS data set with values from another SAS data set. Master-SAS-data-set contains data that you want to update. Transaction-SAS-data-set contains observations for updating the master data set.
The UPDATEMODE= argument determines whether missing values in the transaction data set overwrite values in the master data set. The MISSINGCHECK option prevents missing values in a transaction data set from replacing values ...

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