Tag: DBSASTYPE option

Tell SAS to read a database field as CHAR instead of INT or BIGINT

Yesterday a frustrated SAS user complained on Twitter. He’s working with a database that stores an ID field as a big long number (perhaps using the database BIGINT type), and SAS can’t display a number greater than 15 digits. Well, it’s actually 16 digits, depending on the value: %put Biggest […]

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