topic Re: Hard time with SAS to Teradata Date Format - Upload in SAS Data Management

Hard time with SAS to Teradata Date Format - Upload

NareshAbburi — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:52:54 GMT

Hi,

I'm having hard time with date format of SAS to Teradata data upload.

My is as below.

here X is my Teradata library. Y is my SAS library

proc sql;

create table X.pace as

select division_name, region_name, lob, bus_res,activity, fme , date, qty from Y.pace;

run;

Date format is not as expected. how exactly should I select the query to pass the correct date format.

Thanks,

Naresh

Re: Hard time with SAS to Teradata Date Format - Upload

Reeza — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:01:33 GMT

What do you expect a date to look like in Teradata?

How does it look like in SAS?

If you go to the MORE LIKE THIS section on the right hand side of the page on your question you'll see several answers to this common question.

Re: Hard time with SAS to Teradata Date Format - Upload

NareshAbburi — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:13:15 GMT

Just DATE format.

kindly give me inputs.

Re: Hard time with SAS to Teradata Date Format - Upload

Reeza — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:30:22 GMT

Teradata is most likely expecting a datetime variable not a date.

Re: Hard time with SAS to Teradata Date Format - Upload

TomKari — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:33:47 GMT

In your Y.pace table, does the "date" field have a date format attached? Sometimes SAS uses that as an indicator to create a different column format in the target database.

You can use this code to associate a date format with the variable:

proc datasets library=Y nolist;

modify pace;

format date date.;

quit;

If "date" is a datetime variable, use the datetime. format instead of date.

Tom

Re: Hard time with SAS to Teradata Date Format - Upload

Tom — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:38:09 GMT

Should work fine. How is it different?

What did the SAS log show? Did you turn on displaying the generated Teradata SQL code?

libname X teradata server=&server username=&username password=&password

connection=global mode=teradata database=&userdb

;

data pace ;

length division_name region_name lob bus_res activity fme $20 ;

length date qty 8;

format date date9. ;

informat date date9. ;

input division_name -- qty ;

cards;

division_name region_name lob bus_res activity fme 09AUG2015 100

;;;;

data x.pace;

set pace;

run;

data _null_;

set x.pace ;

put (_all_) (=/);

run;

division_name=division_name

region_name=region_name

lob=lob

bus_res=bus_res

activity=activity

fme=fme

date=09AUG2015

qty=100

Re: Hard time with SAS to Teradata Date Format - Upload

NareshAbburi — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 19:24:08 GMT

Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it.