Date:         Thu, 11 Nov 1999 07:54:43 +0000
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From:         Roland <roland.rashleigh-berry@VIRGIN.NET>
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Subject:      Re: How to compare a VERY large flat file against a 7000 record
              SAS
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David_Fickbohm@FFIC.COM wrote:
>
> People:
> I need to compare a VERY large flat file against a 7000 record SAS file.   The
> flat file has all 20 years of data.  With each year being probably 200,000
> records.    Can anyone one give me an idea how to do this ?
> Thanks in advance
> Dave

200,000 records isn't a lot. Capacity Planners deal with millions of
records every day. Read in the bare information from this large file
into a SAS dataset and compare with your existing SAS dataset by doing a
merge if you can.

Roland