Split large SAS dataset into smaller datasets

Question

I need some assistance with splitting a large SAS dataset into smaller datasets.

Each month I\'ll have a dataset containing a few million records. This number will

Answer 1

You can do it without macros, using CALL EXECUTE(). It creates SAS-code as text strings and then executes it, after your "manually written" code completed.

data _null_;
    if 0 then set have nobs=n;
    do i=1 to ceil(n/250000);
        call execute (cats("data want",i)||";");
        call execute ("set have(firstobs="||(i-1)*250000+1||" obs="||i*250000||");");
        call execute ("run;");
    end;
run;