Date:         Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:03:30 +0000
Reply-To:     John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
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From:         John Whittington <John.W@MEDISCIENCE.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Number of obs in dataset
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At 16:06 16/11/99 -0500, Anne.Marie.Smith@ASTRAPHARMACEUTICALS.COM wrote:

>I do not believe that you can test a "view" for the number
>of observations. It is just a stored data query which may be
>why Jacques got an observation count of 1.

Anne Marie, yes, I think you're right that it can't be done, for the reason
you give, but I don't know about it being an explanation for an answer of 1
.... I've just played around SETting DATA step views, and no matter what
size the dataset of which it's a view, I seem to end up being told that
NOBS = 2147483647 !!

Regards,


John

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