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Building Metadata Repository for Data Sets

Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Metadata describe SAS dataset features, such as dataset name, physical location, creation date, last modified date, number of observations, variable names, and so on. A metadata repository gives users quick access to many datasets’ features without opening those datasets. This paper from SAS demonstrates macros to automate the process of building and reporting metadata repositories. Macro %getmeta allows a programmer to document metadata for a dataset and append these metadata to a metadata repository of other datasets. Macro %viewmeta generates a metadata report from a metadata repository as a comma-separated file.


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