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Problem Note 18400: Different column Format is given when using ORDER BY and a date literal within a SELECT statement using the Sybase engine
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A different column format is given when using an ORDER BY clause and a date literal within a SELECT statement with SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Sybase. When using a datetime, date or time literal with PROC SQL, implicit SQL Pass-Through is used and is not using the CONVERT function before sending the value to the database, therefore giving a different format.
An example of this is included below:
libname tgm_data sybase user=newuser pw=newpwd;
%let datum='24Apr2006'd;
proc sql;
create table x as
select &datum as zeit_dat,
* from tgm_data.class
order by sex;
create table z as
select &datum as zeit_dat,
* from tgm_data.class;
quit;
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Sybase | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||