I've got a dataset containing a date field named Submitted:
01Jan2015
01Jan2015
01Jan2015
02Jan2015
03Jan2015
I'm running a simple query builder which produces this code:
PROC SQL;
CREATE TABLE WORK.Stuff AS
SELECT DISTINCT t1.Submitted
FROM WORK.INPUTSET t1
ORDER BY t1.Submitted;
QUIT;
The output result is:
01Jan2015
01Jan2015
01Jan2015
02Jan2015
03Jan2015
Shouldn't there only be three records in the output file?
If your date field is a SAS date, it may contain a fractional part, try using
CREATE TABLE WORK.Stuff AS
SELECT DISTINCT round(t1.Submitted) as Submitted format=date9.
FROM WORK.INPUTSET t1
ORDER BY Submitted;
QUIT;
if your date field is a SAS datetime, it may contain a time value, try using
CREATE TABLE WORK.Stuff AS
SELECT DISTINCT datepart(t1.Submitted) as Submitted format=date9.
FROM WORK.INPUTSET t1
ORDER BY Submitted;
QUIT;
If your date field is a SAS date, it may contain a fractional part, try using
CREATE TABLE WORK.Stuff AS
SELECT DISTINCT round(t1.Submitted) as Submitted format=date9.
FROM WORK.INPUTSET t1
ORDER BY Submitted;
QUIT;
if your date field is a SAS datetime, it may contain a time value, try using
CREATE TABLE WORK.Stuff AS
SELECT DISTINCT datepart(t1.Submitted) as Submitted format=date9.
FROM WORK.INPUTSET t1
ORDER BY Submitted;
QUIT;
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