topic Re: Oracle Insert sysdate in SAS Programming

Oracle Insert sysdate

sorosch — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:03:28 GMT

Hello,

i want to insert SYSDATE into an oracle table.

This works:

		proc sql noprint threads;
		connect to ORACLE as oracle ( user=XX password=XX path=XX );

		INSERT INTO oraCon.TABLENAME
		(
			LAST_UPDATE
		) 
		VALUES
		(
			'01JAN2016:00:00:00'DT
		);
		disconnect from oracle;
		quit;

But how can i insert sysdate/datetime (the actual date and time) instead of the constant "'01JAN2016:00:00:00'DT"?

Thank you very much.

Best regards

George

Re: Oracle Insert sysdate

Reeza — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:07:23 GMT

Use the DATETIME() function.

*Create a macro variable;
%let myDate = %sysfunc(datetime(), datetime21.);

*Display macro variable for testing;
%put &myDate;

Re: Oracle Insert sysdate

RW9 — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:09:51 GMT

Maybe (can't check it):

		VALUES
		(
			"%sysfunc(date(),date9.):%sysfunc(time(),tod8.)"dt
		);

Re: Oracle Insert sysdate

sorosch — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 15:32:30 GMT

Thanks you very much

Best regards

George

Re: Oracle Insert sysdate

Tom — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:24:34 GMT

The automatic macro variables SYSDATE9 and SYSTIME are set to the date and time when your SAS session started. If you want to use those then change use something like:

proc sql noprint threads;
connect to ORACLE as oracle ( user=XX password=XX path=XX );
INSERT INTO oraCon.TABLENAME (LAST_UPDATE)
VALUES ("&sysdate9:&systime"dt)
;
disconnect from oracle;
quit;

If instead you want to use the current date and time then you can call the DATETIME() function instead. The VALUES statement does not take functions so wrap the function call in the %SYSFUNC() macro function.

VALUES (%sysfunc(datetime()))

Re: Oracle Insert sysdate

sorosch — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 07:29:06 GMT

Thank you very much - works also correct:)