To find out more information on a table, use the FEEDBACK option or the CONTENTS statement in the DATASETS procedure. The DESCRIBE VIEW statement writes a view definition to the SAS log. If you use a ...

I need to describe a bunch of tables programatically (i.e. get their attribute names and corresponding data types). I can use Describe <I>table </I> on them in the SQL window, but when I try to ...

To see how each DICTIONARY table is defined, submit a DESCRIBE TABLE statement. After you know how a table is defined, you can use its column names in a subsetting WHERE clause to get more specific ...