A data file that is not related to or does not contain any linkages to another file. It is generally used for stand-alone lists. When files must be related (customers to orders, vendors to purchases, ...

In this flat file database, the data on each member of staff is held together with all data for each department. This is unnecessary as some information is stored more than once (eg the same phone ...

Importing data enables you to read data from an existing external file and create a SAS table from it. In this section, you import the file that was created in the previous section. Note that when you ...