The Little SAS® Book: A Primer, Third Edition

Chapter 6. Modifying and Combining SAS^® Data Sets

	“I usually say, ‘The computer is the dumbest thing on campus. It does exactly what you tell it to; not necessarily what you want. Logic is up to you.”
	--NECIA A. BLACK, R.N., PH.D.

From the SAS L Listserv, May 6, 1994. Reprinted by permission of the author.

6.1	Modifying a Data Set Using the SET Statement	170
6.2	Stacking Data Sets Using the SET Statement	172
6.3	Interleaving Data Sets Using the SET Statement	174
6.4	Combining Data Sets Using a One-to-One Match Merge	176
6.5	Combining Data Sets Using a One-to-Many Match Merge	178
6.6	Merging Summary Statistics with the Original Data	180
6.7	Combining a Grand Total with the Original Data	182
6.8	Updating a Master Data Set with Transactions	184
6.9	Using SAS Data Set Options ...