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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:10:19 -0500
- Reply-To: Kernon Gibes <gibes@SWIRL.MONSANTO.COM>
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- From: Kernon Gibes <gibes@SWIRL.MONSANTO.COM>
- Subject: RE: MEANS/SUMMARY and Weight Statement in 6.07
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- CONTENT: f/u on Howard's f/u
- SUMMARY: Agree, except probably want SELECT UNIQUE...
- REL/PLTF: 6.07/ n.a.
- E-ADDR: gibes@swirl.monsanto.com
- NAME: Kernon Gibes
- DATE: 17 August 1992
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- I agree with everything Howard Schreier had to say about my response
- to the PROC SUMMARY shortcut/SQL approach except that with respect to
- getting the global stats (_type_=0), Howard wrote:
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- >Same SELECT statement, but without the GROUP BY and ORDER BY
- >clauses, should do it. Also, there is an unstated
- >...
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- in addition, you'd probably want to add UNIQUE to the SELECT statement,
- as in:
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- select unique myclass, /*** etc ***/
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- otherwise you'll get ALL the observations with the global summary stats
- merged back in instead of just one observation.
-