1. Setting SQL Procedure Options4
Setting SQL Procedure Options

2. Controlling Processing
PROC SQL options give you finer control over your SQL processes: Syntax checking without executing your code Expanding SQL statements to their fully-qualified values Restricting the number of rows processed Providing system utilization statistics for query tuning

3. Controlling Processing, Selected options
Effect
INOBS=n
sets a limit of n rows from each source table that contributes to a query.
OUTOBS=n
restricts the number of rows that a query outputs (displays or writes to a table).
NOSTIMER|STIMER
controls whether or not PROC SQL writes resource utilization statistics to the SAS log.
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4. Controlling Processing, Selected options
Effect
PRINT|NOPRINT
controls whether the results of a SELECT statement are displayed in the OUTPUT window.
NONUMBER|NUMBER
controls whether the row number is displayed as the first column in query output.
NODOUBLE|DOUBLE
controls whether the report is double-spaced.
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5. Use the RESET statement to add or change PROC SQL options without re-invoking the procedure
RESET option(s);

6. Controlling Processing, Read ten rows from orion.Price_List
proc sql inobs=10;
title "orion.Price_List - INOBS=10";
select Product_ID,
Unit_Cost_Price format=comma8.2,
Unit_Sales_Price format=comma8.2,
Unit_Sales_Price-Unit_Cost_Price as Margin format=comma8.2
from orion.Price_List ;
quit;
title;

7. Controlling Processing
Controlling Processing. Join all rows, but limit output to the 10 most profitable customers
proc sql outobs=10;
title "10 Most Profitable Customers";
select Customer_ID,
sum(Unit_Sales_Price-Unit_Cost_Price)
as Profit_2007 format=comma8.2
from orion.Price_List as p,
orion.Order_Fact as o
where p.Product_ID=o.Product_id
and year(Order_date) =2007
group by Customer_ID
order by Profit_2007 desc;
quit;
title;

8. proc sql number outobs=10;
title "Top 10 Employee's 2007 Charitable Donations";
select Employee_Name, Sum(Qtr1,Qtr2, Qtr3,Qtr4) as Donation_Total
from orion.Employee_Addresses as a,
orion.Employee_donations as d
where a.Employee_ID=d.Employee_ID
order by Donation_Total desc, Employee_Name ;
reset nonumber outobs=9;
title "Top 9 Employee's 2007 Charitable Donations";
quit;
title;