topic Date - Information Map join in SAS Web Report Studio

Date - Information Map join

carmendee — Thu, 26 May 2016 13:21:19 GMT

In Information Map, I need to join the following in advanced edit:

MM/DD/YYYY (char)

to either

YYYYMMDD (numeric) or DATETIME20 (DDMMYYYY:00:00:00)

Help!

Re: Date - Information Map join

Haris — Thu, 26 May 2016 15:41:12 GMT

Hard to understand what you're looking to do but seems like you need to get all three of your dates in the same format. Input() function can be used to get char. to date. format and a datepart() function will extract the date from the datetime variable.

Re: Date - Information Map join

carmendee — Fri, 27 May 2016 12:20:47 GMT

Because these are two different data types, I need to find a way to join them in Information Map. I cannot "first" get the data types the same in that software.

Re: Date - Information Map join

LinusH — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 02:42:35 GMT

Your inquiry suggests that you don't have an organized data model. That would be OK in a Staging area, but definitely not in the data mart layer which fronts the end users.