
Accessing SAS System Information By Using
DICTIONARY Tables
What Are Dictionary Tables?
DICTIONARY tables are special read-only PROC SQL tables or views. They retrieve
information about all the SAS libraries, SAS data sets, SAS system options, and external
files that are associated with the current SAS session. For example, the
DICTIONARY.Columns table contains information such as name, type, length, and
format, about all columns in all tables that are known to the current SAS session.
PROC SQL automatically assigns the DICTIONARY libref. To get information from
DICTIONARY tables, specify DICTIONARY.table-name in the FROM clause in a
SELECT statement ...