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SAS Companion for the CMS Environment |
Under CMS, permanent SAS files can be stored in the following formats:
Advantages of Tape Format |
Disadvantages of Tape-Format Files on Tape |
Tape-format files on tape have the following disadvantages:
data new; set tape.one tape.two; run;
Note: If you write more than one SAS
file in tape format using the same libref, they are written as one physical,
sequential file.
Disadvantages of Tape-Format Files on Disk |
Tape-format files on disk have many of the same disadvantages as tape-format files on tape:
Note: If you write more than one SAS
file in tape format using the same libref, they are written as one physical,
sequential file.
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