The DESCRIBE TABLE statement writes a CREATE TABLE statement to the SAS log for the table specified in the DESCRIBE TABLE statement, regardless of how the table was originally created (for example, ...

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 ...

Specifies the optional format of describe output. If EXTENDED is specified then additional metadata information (such as parent database, owner, and access time) is returned. table_identifier.

An SQLDA is a collection of variables that is required for execution of the SQL DESCRIBE statement. The SQLDA variables are options that can be used by the PREPARE, OPEN, FETCH, EXECUTE, and CALL ...