topic Re: Loading data from SAS to SQL decimal values in SAS Enterprise Guide

Loading data from SAS to SQL decimal values

mmkr — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:19:00 GMT

When Iam trying to load data from SAS to SQL decimal values it is rounding off automatically.Eventhough i used same decimal(10,5) same as SQL.

In SAS : 0.31964

In SQL : 0

It is just straight forward load.

PROC SQL;

INSERT INTO libname.sqltable

(

col1

,col2

,col3

,col4

)

Select

col1

,col2

,col3

,col4

from WORK.sastable ;

QUIT;

could any one please advise on this.Thanks in advance !!!

Re: Loading data from SAS to SQL decimal values

TomKari — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:54:13 GMT

There is no decimal(10,5) data type in SAS. All numeric variables are stored in 8 byte floating point. Could it be a mismatch in how the data moves from SAS to SQL? It looks like your values are being truncated because there's an integer data type in there somewhere.

Tom

Re: Loading data from SAS to SQL decimal values

SASKiwi — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:38:37 GMT

What is the database you are loading into? SAS uses default translations to convert from SAS columns to database columns. For numerics the SAS format of the column is important, so what SAS formats are applied to the columns being loaded?

Re: Loading data from SAS to SQL decimal values

mmkr — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:26:45 GMT

Thanks tom for reply.

Please see the example :

Created in SAS :

data xx1;

informat col1 10.5;

format col1 10.5;

input col1;

cards;

9.47663

;

run;

When loading to SQL it is loading just 9

there is no conversion between ..

In SQl , The columns datatype is [col1] [decimal](10, 5) NULL

Re: Loading data from SAS to SQL decimal values

ChrisNZ — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:53:19 GMT

show us the result of

proc contents data=libname.sqltable;run;

(table used in INSERT INTO libname.sqltable)

Re: Loading data from SAS to SQL decimal values

SASKiwi — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:54:11 GMT

Are you using SAS/ACCESS to ODBC then using the SQI ODBC driver? And what is the back-end database you are connecting to?

If so this is what SAS does: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/acreldb/68028/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n13gtugcxgdqstn1pooivt622n4q.htm

Re: Loading data from SAS to SQL decimal values

TomKari — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 21:20:41 GMT

Everything you're doing looks fine to me.

All I can think of, is can you use a tool native to your DBMS to ensure that the value is actually 9? I'm wondering if it's actually correct in the database, but being truncated when displayed.

Tom