The BTEQ SUPPRESS command deletes duplicated data by replacing all consecutively repeating values with space characters in the output reports.
Example – SUPPRESS
Without using the SUPPRESS command, for example, the following SELECT statement produces the example report shown here:
select deptno, name from employee where deptno in (100, 300) order by deptno;
Example report:
DeptNo Name ------ ----------- 100 Chin M 100 Greene W 100 Moffit H 100 Peterson J 300 Russell S 300 Phan A
Adding a BTEQ SUPPRESS command produces the example report shown here:
.SET SUPPRESS ON 1 select deptno, name from employee where deptno in (100, 300) order by deptno;
Example report:
DeptNo Name ------ ----------- 100 Chin M Greene W Moffit H Peterson J 300 Russell S Phan A Leidner P
Eliminating the duplicated department numbers in the first column makes it easier to see the break between Dept. 100 and Dept. 300.