I'm new to SPSS. I've searched the archives and the documentation, but can't find an answer to my question. I'm probably looking for the wrong things.

The situation is this: I have several tables of data from various survey instruments in a relational database (PostgreSQL). I've pulled the data out into tab-separated value files, which I've imported into SPSS. So far no problem.

However, this creates individual .SAV files which seem to be entirely unrelated. Is there a way to pull all of these datasets into a single file? Or is there some what to create a library (even if the files themselves are separate) so that the datasets are linked together on the appropriate variables?

Any help appreciated -- even a link to appropriate online instructions or some ideas for what to look under in the Help manual. I looked at merge, but that seems to be about adding more data to a dataset, not linking sets together.

Thanks!

Note: I'm using SPSS 11 for Mac OS X.

Chas. Munat The University of Washington Behavior Research Center (UWBRC)