First One In Gets the Win

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Yikes, it’s been a while since the last update! So I will try to keep this one short and useful. Most everybody knows there are essentially two ways for tables to be merged in SAS: using the merge statement in the data step and using a join in SQL. Programmers tend to prefer one way over the other, and generally they are interchangeable. However, there are some minor differences that you

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