I am trying to create a MTD flad on SAS EG to compare financial figures year over year; below is the formula I came up with, however I am not getting any answers. Not sure, what I'm doing wrong here:
CASE
WHEN MONTH(t1.TransactionDate) = MONTH (TODAY()) AND DAY(t1.TransactionDate) <= DAY(TODAY())
THEN 'MTD'
END
I have a list of TransactionsDates for 2015 (Jan to Dec) and 2016 YTD.
Thanks,
CJ
Is TransactionDate a SAS Date or DateTime value. If it's DateTime then your When case would always be False.
Did you have an "END AS VaraibleName" ?
need to have a place to put the result
data have;
input transactiondate :yymmdd10.;
format transactiondate yymmddd10.;
cards;
2015-04-04
2015-10-02
2015-10-10
2016-04-04
2016-10-02
2016-10-10
;
run;
proc sql;
create table want as
select transactiondate,
case
when month(t1.TransactionDate) = month(today()) and day(t1.TransactionDate) <= day(today())
then 'MTD'
end as mtd
from have t1;
quit;
proc print noobs;
run;
delivers this result:
transactiondate mtd 2015-04-04 2015-10-02 MTD 2015-10-10 2016-04-04 2016-10-02 MTD 2016-10-10
So to me, your query works as desired; if that is not the case with your code, post the complete SQL code and the log.
Thank you Kurt, the problem was the date format
Is TransactionDate a SAS Date or DateTime value. If it's DateTime then your When case would always be False.
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