what is the difference between SET and MERGE?

Answer Posted / pratik

Set statments are used to copy the data from existing
database to new database.

where merge is used to join two dataset and both should
have common varaible and same number of observation.

IN mearging we have two type one is

Vertically-we have three process concate,interleaving and
append.
in concate and interleaving we use set option.

Horazentally-we use Merge option.

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