Specifies whether to use the SAS sort utility or the host sort utility or to let SAS choose the sort utility.
| Valid in: | configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement, SAS System Options window |
| Category: | Sort: Procedure Options |
| PROC OPTIONS GROUP= | SORT |
| Default: | BEST |
| Windows specifics: | all |
tells SAS to sort by using the SAS sort routine.
tells SAS to determine the best sort routine to sort the data: a database sort, the SAS sort, or SyncSort. When SAS determines that the sort is not to be done by the database, SAS looks at the values for both SORTCUT and SORTCUTP. If they both are set to zero, the SAS sort is used. If both options are set and either condition is met, SAS uses the SyncSort routine.
tells SAS to sort by using SyncSort for Windows.