Starting with SAS Data Sets

Introduction to Starting with SAS Data Sets

In this section, you will learn how to do the following:

display information about a SAS data set
create a new SAS data set from an existing SAS data set rather than creating it from raw data records

Reading a SAS data set in a DATA step is simpler than reading raw data because the work of describing the data to SAS has already been done.

You should understand the concepts presented in What Is the SAS System? and Introduction to DATA Step Processing before continuing with this section.