
DATE
indicates a date column.
Optional Argument
column-modifier
See “column-modifier” on page 321.
Details
• SAS supports many but not all of the data types that SQL-based databases support.
• For all the numeric data types (INTEGER, SMALLINT, DECIMAL, NUMERIC,
FLOAT, REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION, and DATE), the SQL procedure defaults to
the SAS data type NUMERIC. The width and ndec arguments are ignored; PROC
SQL creates all numeric columns with the maximum precision allowed by SAS. If
you want to create numeric columns that use less storage space, then use the
LENGTH statement in the DATA step. The various numeric data type names, along
with the width ...