topic Re: Concatenating Date and Time in PROC SQL in SAS Programming

Concatenating Date and Time in PROC SQL

PhatRam33 — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:39:23 GMT

Date is formatted as such: 25JAN2018

and Time is formatted as such: 16:18:23

Trying to return a new field to where datetime is returned: 25JAN2018 16:18:23

I tried a cast function on both fields and attempted to combine and no such luck. Is there anyway to do this in PROC SQL?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Concatenating Date and Time in PROC SQL

Reeza — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:57:59 GMT

CAST() is not a SAS function, are you using SQL Pass through and are the fields SAS dates or character variables?

If it's SAS dates/times you can use the DHMS() function to compile the date and format as desired.

@PhatRam33 wrote:

Date is formatted as such: 25JAN2018

and Time is formatted as such: 16:18:23

Trying to return a new field to where datetime is returned: 25JAN2018 16:18:23

I tried a cast function on both fields and attempted to combine and no such luck. Is there anyway to do this in PROC SQL?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Concatenating Date and Time in PROC SQL

PhatRam33 — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:00:59 GMT

It is in SQL pass-through. The date field is in date9 format I believe and the time field is in time8 format if that helps.

Re: Concatenating Date and Time in PROC SQL

Tom — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:15:56 GMT

@PhatRam33 wrote:

It is in SQL pass-through. The date field is in date9 format I believe and the time field is in time8 format if that helps.

In that case you need to know which flavor of SQL your foreign database is using and find the appropriate command in that language. Are you using Oracle? Teradata? Redshift? Microsoft SQL Server? IBM ?? etc.

Re: Concatenating Date and Time in PROC SQL

PhatRam33 — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:33:09 GMT

The language for the database is IBM DB2 I believe.

Re: Concatenating Date and Time in PROC SQL

PhatRam33 — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 14:38:33 GMT

I figured it out. Once I found out the language of the database, the wheels started turning lol. Tom I give you credit though I totally missed this key question.

Was able to use the timestamp function with success:

timestamp(CREATE_DT, CREATE_TM) as CREATE_DT_TM