Do you need to combine data sets? How should you combine
data sets– MERGE or SET statements in DATA steps,PROC
APPEND,PROC SQL?

Answer Posted / vimal

proc append is best to just combine two datasets.
it appends in bulk and without have to read and send to output. it just puts the dataset in data= to dataset in base=

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