whenever we using the merging through data set merging ,we can
get note in log like this "MERGE STATEMENT HAS MORE THAN ONE
ONE DATASET BY REPEATED BY VAIABLES" but the output has come
in good manner,whenever in in sql(full join) we can get
cartion product.so How do overcome this problem in sql?

Answer Posted / alok karan

if we have exactly same number of observation for each BY value in two data sets and we use merge statement to merge them then within log window we got message"MERGE STATEMENT HAS MORE THAN ONE
ONE DATASET BY REPEATED BY VAIABLES"

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