Merging SAS Data Sets
Match-Merge Processing
The data sets
Payroll.Employee
and
Payroll.Accounts
both contain a variable named
Division
. What happens to the variable in the output data set when the two data sets are merged?
Division
has the length of
Division
in the first data set in the MERGE statement.
Division
has the length of
Division
in the last data set in the MERGE statement.
Division
appears twice in the output data set.
The length of
Division
changes depending on which data set contributes a given value.
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