SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

Documenting Integrity Constraints

Overview

To view the descriptor portion of your data, including the integrity constraints that you have placed on a data set, you can use the CONTENTS statement in the DATASETS procedure.

General form, DATASETS procedure with the CONTENTS statement: PROC DATASETS LIB=libref <NOLIST>; CONTENTS DATA=SAS-data-set; QUIT; Here is an explanation of the syntax: libref is the library in which the data set is stored. NOLIST suppresses the directory listing. SAS-data-set is the name of the data set that you want information about.

Note: The CONTENTS statement in the DATASETS procedure results in the same information as the CONTENTS procedure.

Example

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