SAS Date Formats Incompatible with SQL Server Date

Question

I\'m fairly new to SAS and recently we migrated some of our SAS datasets to a SQL Server table but we are still using SAS to do our analysis. I have run into a problem when SAS

Answer 1

If the column srv_edt is showing up in your SAS data set as a character variable, that means it is really a character variable or it's been converted to character by the ODBC driver you are using (possibly because the native data type is not supported by ODBC).

You'd be better off changing this to a PROC SQL pass-thru query if possible. You would need to figure out the native syntax that corresponds to the SAS intnx function (and I cannot help you there). As written, the entire table must be read (because you are using a SAS function). If you use a pass-thru query, SAS will only receive the rows that match the whee clause.

There might be setting in the ODBC driver that control this behavior. I'll add the ODBC and SQL Server tags to your question; you may get more "hits".