I have an Oracle table called Oracle_table.
In this Oracle table I have only one column and one row
Column name: Datetime_1
Value: 31/DEC/2801 11:59:59.000000000 PM
I load the data from Oracle into SAS using data steps
Data T;
set Schema.Oracle_table; /* assume implicit pass through*/
run;
Proc print data=T;
run;
I got a . (dot) for the column Datetime_1 in SAS
Why?
What datatype has the Oracle column?
What does it look like if you are opening the table from SAS (not using a data step), or do a proc print directly towards it?
Try executing the query using these options it might give some more hints:
options sastrace=',,,d' sastraceloc=saslog nostsuffx msglevel=i;
What format did SAS assign to the variable when that data set was created?
Show us the result of running Proc Contents data=t;
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