The APPEND procedure adds the observations from one SAS data set to the end of another SAS data set.

Generally, the APPEND procedure functions the same as the APPEND statement in the DATASETS procedure. The only difference between the APPEND procedure and the APPEND statement in PROC DATASETS is the default for libref in the BASE= and DATA= arguments. For PROC APPEND, the default is either WORK or USER. For the APPEND statement, the default is the libref of the procedure input library.