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SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition
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SAS Certification Prep Guide, 4th Edition

by SAS Institute
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
858 pages
40h 10m
English
SAS Institute
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Using Dictionary Tables

Overview

Dictionary tables are commonly used to monitor and manage SAS sessions because the data is easier to manipulate than the output from procedures such as PROC DATASETS.
Dictionary tables are special, read-only SAS tables that contain information about SAS libraries, SAS macros, and external files that are in use or available in the current SAS session. Dictionary tables also contain the settings for SAS system options and SAS titles and footnotes that are currently in effect. 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.
Dictionary tables are
  • created each time they are referenced ...
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