topic Re: Where clause understanding in SAS Programming

Where clause understanding

Babloo — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 07:39:19 GMT

Appreciate if some of you help me understand what the following where clause will do?

WHERE '31Jan2017'd between t1.PREMIUM_BEG_DT AND t1.PREMIUM_END_DT

Re: Where clause understanding

Satish_Parida — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:02:02 GMT

It will filter records where PREMIUM_BEG_DT<31-Jan-2017 and PREMIUM_END_DT>31-Jan-2017

Re: Where clause understanding

RW9 — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:35:06 GMT

This is basic SQL knowledge, perhaps have a read of the SQL in SAS help documents, or help documents on SQL:

https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_between.asp

Re: Where clause understanding

s_lassen — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:41:30 GMT

Basically, it will select all rows where the begin-date is before or on the 31st of January 2017, and the end date is on that date or after. If you are doing standard SQL, that is (in SAS, that happens if you write Pass-through SQL calls, or if the where clause is passed directly to an external DBMS).

But, if you are doing SAS SQL, it can also be the opposite, if the begin date is larger than the end date. Including if the end date is missing, and the begin date is after the date in question. SAS has a problem with missing values in where clauses, and with the between condition.