SUGI 27: Table Look-up: Techniques Beyond the …

Paper 11-271 Table Lookup: Techniques Beyond the ObviousNancy Croonen, CC Training Services, Belgiumir. Henri Theuwissen, SOLID Partners, BelgiumABSTRACTT able lookup operations are often the most time consuming partof many SAS programs. In this paper we will combine two SASdata sets by using the value of a specific variable to locateinformation in an auxiliary or lookup SAS data set and add it toinformation from the primary SAS data set. Base SAS softwareoffers a broad range of Techniques to perform Table lookupoperations. Do you use the most obvious technique or do youevaluate multiple Techniques and determine which technique isthe most efficient way to perform the lookup?INTRODUCTIONThis paper discusses seven different approaches to perform thetable lookup in terms of processing time and the complexity ofcoding.

2 primary SAS data set. Observations in the SAS data sets SUGI27.BAD_DEBTOR and SUGI27.SALES are also related by common values for VAT_NUMBER. There is a one-to-many relationship between

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