Getting Information about Your SAS Data Sets

Introduction to Getting Information about Your SAS Data Sets

As you create libraries of SAS data sets, SAS generates and maintains information about where the library is stored in your operating environment, how and when the data sets were created, and how their contents are defined. Using the DATASETS procedure, you can view this information without displaying the contents of the data set or referring to additional documentation.

In this section, you will learn how to get the following information about SAS data libraries and SAS data sets:

names and types of SAS files that are included in a SAS data library
names and attributes for variables in SAS data sets
summary information about storage parameters for the operating environment
summary information about the history and structure of SAS data sets

Prerequisites

Before using this section, you should understand the concepts presented in the following sections:

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