SAS 8 - Combining and Updating Data Sets

Summary:

This course presents various methods for combining and updating existing SAS data sets.

This lesson is part of our SAS 8 online training series which contains over 38 hours of self-paced courseware. Our web-based training provides 6 months of unlimited access.

Objectives:

After completing this course you will be able to:

• Create new data sets through concatenating, interleaving or merging observations
• Update a master data set with values from a transaction data set
• Manipulate a SAS data set in place
• Read a data set twice
• Determine the source of an observation
• Combine portions of data sets
• Read only certain observations
• Access observations nonsequentially

Outline:

• Concatenating Data Sets
• Interleaving and Merging Data Sets
• Updating with UPDATE
• Updating with MODIFY
• Using Other Techniques

Applicability:
This course is for anyone who wants to get the most out of using SAS 8.

Prerequisites: None:

Technical Requirements:

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