topic Re: Datetime conversions in SAS Programming

Datetime conversions

nbonda — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:00:05 GMT

I have a date vaiable extracted from SQL server (in SQL datatype is datetime2(7)), sas reading it as $27. example data value: (2015-06-09 14:20:00.0000000).

what is this data type called. how can I convert to numeric datetime20.? appreciate you help.

Re: Datetime conversions

data_null__ — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 20:02:13 GMT

data _null_; 
   do d = '2015-06-09 14:20:00.0000000'; 
      dt = input(d,is8601dt26.);
      put d= dt=datetime22.2; 
      end; 
   run; 

23         data _null_;
24            do d = '2015-06-09 14:20:00.0000000'; 
25               dt = input(d,is8601dt26.);
26               put d= dt=datetime22.2; 
27               end;
28            run;

d=2015-06-09 14:20:00.0000000 dt=09JUN2015:14:20:00.00

Re: Datetime conversions

SASKiwi — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 22:50:14 GMT

How are you reading your data from SQL Server? If you are using ODBC, we found that using the latest version of the SQL Server ODBC driver translated datetimes correctly as datetimes not character:

40080 - SQL Server 2008 dates are read in as character when using SAS/ACCESS® Interface to ODBC