Teradata DATE and DATETIMESTAMP into ORACLE DATE and DATETIMESTAMP using PROC SQL

[Banu]

Hi,

I am trying to read one of the Teradata table DATE and DATETIME column values into SAS and then need to load into the ORACLE table DATE and DATETIMETSMAP columns.

I am trying as below.

proc sql;

connect to teradata(&myconnections.);

create table src1 as select * from connection to teradata (select dt1,dt_ts1 from tab1);

quit;

proc print data=src1;run;

dt1                              dt_ts1

16JUN2023              16JUN2023:06:41:05.655255

Also below are proc contents output.

#  Variable Type    Len   Format                  Informat

1    dt1            Num     8     DATE9.                  DATE9. 
2   dt_ts1       Num     8     DATETIME26.6   DATETIME26.6

Could you please help me how can I load above two date values into Oracle table with data types: DATE and TIMESTAMP(6). Thank you so much In advance.

[Banu]

When I tried to insert data into oracle table I can values like 14JUN13. Loading date values with 10 years back. Please suggest if I need to use any formats.

[Tom]

Example of what you tried.

It should work normally.

libname td teradata ..... ;
proc sql;
insert into td.td_table (date,datetime)
  select date,datetime 
  from saslib.sas_dataset
;
quit;

[Patrick]

Have a read of Data Types for Oracle

If you want full control what data types you get in the Oracle table - i.e. not just TIMESTAMP but TIMESTAMP(6) then use explicit SQL passthrough and create the Oracle table explicitly before loading into it.

According to the Oracle documentation the default for TIMESTAMP is TIMESTAMP(6) so you should be fine even if leaving the job to SAS.

The SAS docu states for automatic conversion "any date, time,....format...": In my experience with no more current releases of SAS things didn't work as expected with formats other than Date and DateTime. But may-be that's fixed now.