Date:         Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:00:52 -0500
Reply-To:     Sigurd Hermansen <HERMANS1@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         Sigurd Hermansen <HERMANS1@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Behaviour of many-many match merging in SAS
Comments: To: Don Stanley <don_stanley@XTRA.CO.NZ>
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I have tried to convey the same message in several SUGI presentations and
other rantings.  SAS makes it easy to check for primary key duplicates,
failures of one-way and two-way referential integrity constraints, and other
anomalies in data.  If resolved, series of joins become neatly transitive
and much of programming reduces to highly predictable set-logic operations.
If left unresolved, the accuracy and consistency of results depend on the
current state of the data. Sig

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<From: Don Stanley [mailto:don_stanley@XTRA.CO.NZ]
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<I prefer to have my data structured in such a way to ensure that my
<merge will work.