The Program Data Vector (PDV in Base SAS) is a logical area of memory that is created during the data step processing. SAS builds a SAS dataset by reading one observation at a time into the PDV and, unless given code to do otherwise, writes the observation to a target dataset. More on PDV in Base SAS in the video
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Compilation Phase
01:04 Execution Phase
05:04 Input Buffer
09:03 Executing Assignment Statement
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