Hello,
Sorry I am new to using SAS fulltime, however come with a solid SQL skillset.
Issue: I need to pass a date in the WHERE statement in an ORACLE Passthrough (Explicit) SQL Query. The date is a Macro field.
Below is the statement:
EXPRTN_DT > TO_DATE(&END_DATE,'DDMONYYYY')
In SAS, &END_DATE has a value of 31MAR2017. (Edit1: Without quotes and this macro is generated dynamically from SAS SQL using INTO: Function)
Steps tried other than the one mentioned above:
1. EXPRTN_DT > TO_DATE("&END_DATE",'DDMONYYYY')
2. EXPRTN_DT > TO_DATE('&END_DATE','DDMONYYYY')
3. EXPRTN_DT > TO_DATE('''&END_DATE''','DDMONYYYY') /*Note: Single Quotes surrounded by Single Quotes)*/
4. EXPRTN_DT > &END_DATE
5. EXPRTN_DT > "&END_DATE"
6. EXPRTN_DT > '&END_DATE'
7. EXPRTN_DT > '''&END_DATE''' /*Note: Single Quotes surrounded by Single Quotes)*/
If need be, willing to provide error messages, but most of them were as below:
1. ERROR: Error fetching from cursor. ORACLE error is ORA-12801: error signaled in parallel query server P019
ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected.
2. Missing right Paranthesis.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
P.S. I was able to run the query in dBeaver with hardcoded date as '31MAR2017' and it worked fine.
So wasted a day and oddly found the solution on Stackoverflow.
Solution:
Changed this: EXPRTN_DT > TO_DATE(&END_DATE,'DDMONYYYY')
To this: EXPRTN_DT > %BQUOTE('&QTR_END_DATE')
Credit: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9830518/proper-syntax-for-sas-macro-date-in-oracle-query
Last Answer by Chris J.
So wasted a day and oddly found the solution on Stackoverflow.
Solution:
Changed this: EXPRTN_DT > TO_DATE(&END_DATE,'DDMONYYYY')
To this: EXPRTN_DT > %BQUOTE('&QTR_END_DATE')
Credit: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9830518/proper-syntax-for-sas-macro-date-in-oracle-query
Last Answer by Chris J.
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