what is the use of proc sql?
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Answer / nishant
PROC SQL is a powerful tool in sas which combines the
functionality of data and proc steps. PROC SQL can sort,
summarize, subset, join (merge), and concatenate datasets,
create new variables, and print the results
or create a new dataset all in one step!
PROC SQL uses less resources when compared to that of data
and proc steps.
To join files in PROC SQL it does not require to sort the
data prior to merging which is must is data merge
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Answer / ganesh
proc sql is also useful for doing the mulitiple operations
like the sas and it is to do sum, merge, mulitiple join
operations like what we do in sas.
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Answer / venkatesh.layam
proc sql is sql in sas.
with proc sql,we can do many more tasks.
-retrive the data from tables,from data bases
-merge the datasets or tables.
-by using different joins we can combine the data as per
our convinience
-we can create the data ,modify the data
-we can have the discriptive statistics also
-we can sort the data with out using proc sort,just use
order by .
these many tasks can do with in single programme
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Answer / kamal shalya
PRO*C is a prograning lanuage of sql statment.with the help
of Pro*c we can do multiple task in sort of time.
such as -Updation
automation
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