Problem Note 34492: Today's date is not exported correctly when rows are appended to an Oracle table
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When using the "Today's date" functionality in a SAS® Customer Intelligence Studio campaign or diagram to export today's date to an Oracle table, the exported date is incorrect when you append the export data to an existing table. When you create a new table the date is correct.
The reason for this is that the "Today's Date" functionality uses the SAS DATE() function to generate the date. DATE() returns today's date in a date format, but Oracle requires dates to be in a datetime format.
To work around this issue, create a calculated data item such that the expression invokes the DATETIME() function, which returns today's date in a datetime format that is acceptable to Oracle.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Customer Intelligence Studio | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 5.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 5.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 5.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 5.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 5.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Windows Vista | 5.1 | 5.3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
A fix for this issue for SAS Marketing Automation 5.1 is available at:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/ma51.html#034492| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2009-03-02 11:48:17 |
| Date Created: | 2009-01-15 15:46:20 |