You need to perform an analysis on a massive dataset by
groups, but are unable to sort the data due to memory
constraint. How would you accomplish the task?

Answer Posted / satheesh

you can use index statement,

proc sql;
create index indexname on Tablename(Variable or Columnname);
quit;

the above code is equivalent to sort.

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