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What is a SAS table?

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From the course: SAS® 9.4 Cert Prep: Part 02 Accessing Data

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What is a SAS table?

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- [Instructor] A SAS table is a structured data file that has defined columns and rows. SAS tables have the file extension .sas7bdat. There are two parts to a SAS table: a descriptor portion and a data portion. The descriptor portion contains the metadata or the properties of the table, such as the name, the number of rows, and the date and time the table was created. The descriptor portion also includes column names and attributes. The data portion contains the data values stored in columns. Historically, SAS had its own terminology to describe SAS tables, but the SAS terms are equivalent to terms you might be more familiar with. In SAS, a table is also called the data set. A column is also called a variable, and a row is also called an observation. These terms are interchangeable. In this course, we generally use the more familiar terms, but you'll see SAS-specific terms in the results, log, and the SAS…

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