September 2019
Beginner to intermediate
346 pages
7h 35m
English
The content procedure shows the details of the datasets and prints the directory of the SAS library. The following is the basic form of the contents procedure:
PROC DATASETS Library=Work; CONTENTS DATA=Cost_Living;RUN;
It produces a fairly descriptive output:

The DATASETS procedure produces details of only the dataset specified in the program:

The engine/host-dependent information can be leveraged for optimizing the ability to store a dataset. For our purposes, this information isn’t relevant as we are dealing with a small ...
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