Introduction to Combining SAS Data Sets

Purpose

SAS provides several methods for combining SAS data sets. In this section, you will be introduced to five methods of combining data sets:
  • concatenating
  • interleaving
  • merging
  • updating
  • modifying
Subsequent sections teach you how to use these methods.

Prerequisites

Before continuing with this section, you should understand the concepts that are presented in the following sections:

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