topic Oracle date format convertion in SAS Enterprise Guide

Oracle date format convertion

deleted_user — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:44:30 GMT

Hi All,

I have a problem with converting Oracle date format in EG.
How do I convert Oracle date into date usable under EG?

i.e. in SQL query i can convert with function (todate(&date,'J'), do we have sth similiar in EG?

Re: Oracle date format convertion

Cynthia_sas — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:46:13 GMT

Hi:
Can you explain, in a bit more detail what is wrong or what is the format of your Oracle date. For example, in some relational databases, dates are not just dates (month, day, year) but they are stored as "date/time" values (month,day,year,hour,minutes,seconds).

When you show the function (todate(&date,'J') can you explain what the 3 major components of the function are or what they do:
todate
&date
'J'

Is this an Oracle-specific function??? If so, what does the entire function do? What is the entire SQL statement or query in which this function appears? Are you trying to convert this SQL query from Oracle SQL to SAS PROC SQL???

A bit more info is needed.

cynthia

Re: Oracle date format convertion

twocanbazza — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:12:12 GMT

Hi.

Oracle Dates are usable in SAS/EG.

If you have a date in Oracle (oracle dates are Datetime), shouldn't the only thing you need to do is apply a SAS Datetime format on the SAS / EG Side?

If you only want the datepart, use the SAS datepart function.

Cheers

Barry