STRINGDATES= LIBNAME Option

Specifies whether to read date and time values from the database as character strings or as numeric date values.
Valid in: SAS/ACCESS LIBNAME statement
Default: NO
Data source: Aster nCluster, DB2 under UNIX and PC Hosts, Greenplum, HP Neoview, Microsoft SQL Server, Netezza, ODBC, OLE DB, Sybase IQ

Syntax

STRINGDATES=YES | NO

Syntax Description

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.

Details

Use STRINGDATES=NO for SAS 6 compatibility.