SQL Server usually holds dates as datetimes. If you filter in SQL Server by date it probably knows how to handle this correctly: where date = '2014-01-01'
Filtering in SAS on a table with the same date read from SQL Server would probably require a datetime string: "01jan2014:00:00:00'dt.
Please provide an example of your problem so we can advise further.
What method are you using to pull the data? Are you licensed for SAS Access to Microsoft SQL Server? Which version of SAS? Can you provide a sample of code?
Note that SAS Access has default behaviour when converting dates/times. Also, there may be options that you can set that will affect how data types are handled by SAS (e.g. SASDATEFMT or DBASTYPE).
SQL Server usually holds dates as datetimes. If you filter in SQL Server by date it probably knows how to handle this correctly: where date = '2014-01-01'
Filtering in SAS on a table with the same date read from SQL Server would probably require a datetime string: "01jan2014:00:00:00'dt.
Please provide an example of your problem so we can advise further.
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