Getting quickly metadata information on your datasets could be useful in some context of conditional execution of SAS programs (e.g.: Don't execute this step if empty dataset). Different methods exists to achieve that: using metadata functions, using Proc contents, or dictionary tables.
This tips and tricks will describe different methods which can be used to extract metadata information from your datasets :
You have some SAS experience and would like to get information on your metadata.
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