The LIBNAME Statement for Relational Databases |
Specifies
whether to read date and time values from the database
as character strings or as numeric date values.
Default value: |
NO
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Valid in: |
SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME
statement
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DBMS support: |
Aster nCluster, DB2 under
UNIX and PC Hosts, Greenplum, HP Neoview, Microsoft SQL Server, Netezza, ODBC,
OLE DB, Sybase IQ
|
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YES
-
specifies that SAS reads date and time values
as character strings.
-
NO
-
specifies that SAS reads date and time values
as numeric date values.
Use STRINGDATES=NO for SAS 6 compatibility.
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