How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?

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How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?..

Answer / nishant

Use nodupkey option in proc sort

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How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?..

Answer / chirag patel

using Nodup you can delete duplicate observation

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How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?..

Answer / ganesh

use nodupkey in proc sort automatically the duplicate key
going to delete.

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How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?..

Answer / ganesh

we can delete the observation by using NODUP.

proc sort data=name nodup;
by varname;
run;

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How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?..

Answer / haritha

In data step first dot variable and last dot variable use
to delete the duplicate values.
by using no dup we delete the duplicate values in row wise
and no dup key is used to delete the duplicate values in
column wise it means observation
and distinct is use to delete the duplicate values in proc
sql

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How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?..

Answer / roopanwita

There is stage called Remove Duplicate to delete duplicate
record and also Sort stage do same funtion.Otherwise if
source databse is a table,then in source SQL we can select
distinct value.

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How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?..

Answer / prakash

nodupkey

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How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?..

Answer / thirumalesh

NoDupKey is to delete duplicate observations based on by variables as a key variable, Noduprecs is to delete multiple observations with same values(repeated values).

also it can be done using proc sql,
and using fist and last statements in if condiotion.

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How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?..

Answer / satish

using nodupkey

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How would you delete observations with duplicate keys?..

Answer / tangyoulei

or distinct in proc sql

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