How can I get a data set that exists in my explorer get into my library in sas?

Question

I am relatively new to sas. I have a data set in one of my folders among the Explorer but I need to have it in my Library called WORK so that I can use it, the file ends with.sas7bdat How can I do that?

Answer 1

You don't need it in your WORK to work with it.

To use MY_TABLE.sas7bdat in c:\my\path , you just declare a library libname MY_LIB 'c:\my\path'; , which you then use (more or less) as a tables-space or Db2 schema. For instance

• data MY_DATA; set MY_LIB.MY_TABLE;
• select... from MY_LIB.MY_TABLE where...;