Understanding SAS Data Libraries

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LIBNAME statement

For more information about the LIBNAME statement, including options for the statement and information about specifying an engine other than the default engine, see "Statements" in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.

Operating environment

For operating environment specifics, see the SAS documentation for your operating environment.

SAS files

Detailed information about SAS files can be found in Part 3, "SAS Files Concepts," in SAS Language Reference: Concepts.

For detailed information about PROC SQL views, see the Base SAS Procedures Guide.

SAS tools

To learn about the tools that are available for managing SAS data libraries, including the DATASETS procedure, see Managing SAS Data Libraries.

USER libref

For information about the USER= system option, which you can use instead of the LIBNAME statement to assign the USER libref, see "SAS System Options" in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary. Note that if you assign the libref both ways or if you assign it more than once with either method, then the last definition holds.

WORK library

For more information about the WORKINIT and NOWORKINIT and the WORKTERM and NOWORKTERM system options, which control when SAS initializes the WORK library, see "SAS System Options" in SAS Language Reference: Dictionary.

Operating Environment Information: These options are implemented slightly differently on the VMS operating environment. For details, see the SAS Companion for the OpenVMS Operating Environment. [cautionend]

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