topic Re: Execute Oracle SQL Procedure with DATE parameter in SAS Procedures

Execute Oracle SQL Procedure with DATE parameter

help09 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:59:28 GMT

I am planning to execute oracle sql procedure with following date '01/JAN/1900' as input parameter in order to pull limited data.

Thanks for your help in advance

proc sql;
connect to oracle (user=&username password=&passwrd path=&dbname);
execute (execute PROC_CREATE_TABLE('01/JAN/1900')) by oracle;
disconnect from oracle;
quit;

Re: Execute Oracle SQL Procedure with DATE parameter

RW9 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:27:33 GMT

Is thre a question in there somewhere, or would you just like the advice that its never a good idea to put data (date in this case) as table or column names?

Re: Execute Oracle SQL Procedure with DATE parameter

help09 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 13:12:47 GMT

Its a sample which i have provided. I need to insert date in such format to kick off procedure such format.
Do we have any other syntax to execute procedure by inserting date from sas

Re: Execute Oracle SQL Procedure with DATE parameter

LinusH — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:20:45 GMT

Do that syntax of yours work in Oracle?
If yes, have you tested in SAS? What do you need help with?

Re: Execute Oracle SQL Procedure with DATE parameter

Sven111 — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:20:39 GMT

That doesn't appear to be valid Oracle code in the execute block unless you've got some oddly named stored procedures you're working with. And I can't see how you can create a table only passing a date. Can you provide some more context?

Re: Execute Oracle SQL Procedure with DATE parameter

SASKiwi — Sat, 15 Jul 2017 23:10:32 GMT

Your code looks OK - it is very similar to this: http://support.sas.com/kb/18/350.html

But please note you can't return a result set from a stored procedure. You need to get the stored procedure to create a table or view that can then be queried separately.