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Option Name
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Description
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Output Order
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Sort order
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specifies whether to
display the output data in ascending or descending order.
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Maintain
original order within groups
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maintains the order
of the observations relative to each other within a BY group.
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Duplicate Records
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Keep all
records
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keeps all of the records
that are in the output table, including all duplicate records.
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Keep only
the first record for each ‘Sort by’ group
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eliminates any duplicate
observations that have the same values for the Sort by group.
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Results
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Sort in
place
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specifies to sort the
existing data set in place. If you select this option, the Sort task
keeps any variables that you assigned to the Columns to
drop role and keeps all duplicate records.
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Output data
set
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specifies the name of
the output data set.
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