By default, each time
you submit a query (or other SAS program) that contains a WHERE expression,
SAS decides whether to use an index, or to read all the observations
in the data file sequentially. To make this decision, SAS does the
following:
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Identifies an available
index or indexes.
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Estimates the number of rows that would be qualified. If multiple indexes are available, SAS selects the index that it ...