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SCL provides several features that enable you to subset a SAS table based on specified search conditions. To apply a permanent WHERE clause to a SAS table, you can use the SAS data set option WHERE= ...

Updating fact rows inside a star schema set of tables is never a best practice. Even so, some organizations travel down this path. Consultants occasionally will go so far as to embrace the idea of ...