Starting with SAS Data Sets

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Creating SAS data sets: For a general discussion about creating SAS data sets from other SAS data sets by merging, concatenating, interleaving, and updating, see Methods of Combining SAS Data Sets.
Data set options: See the "Data Set Options" section of SAS Language Reference: Dictionary, and the SAS documentation for your operating environment.
DROP and KEEP statements: See the "Statements" section of SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.
Engines: see SAS Language Reference: Concepts.
Subsetting IF statement: You can use the subsetting IF statement and conditional (IF-THEN) logic when creating a new SAS data set from an existing one. For more information, see Acting on Selected Observations and Creating Subsets of Observations.