I'm trying to put together a table in SAS Enterprise Guide using INSERT INTO using online tutorials but keep getting errors when I do the same thing as the tutorial. What could be going wrong?
My code:
/* Create the table */
CREATE TABLE Summary_1920 (
Variable VARCHAR(255),
Count INT,
Percentage FLOAT );
/* Create and insert the variable names */
INSERT INTO Summary_1920
(Variable, Count, Percentage)
VALUES
("Variable1", 100, 90.8),
("Variable2", 8, 7.0);
QUIT;
The error:
28 ("IntName", 100, 90.8),
_
22
200
ERROR 22-322: Syntax error, expecting one of the following: ;, VALUES.
ERROR 200-322: The symbol is not recognized and will be ignored.
This is my first time using SAS EG/SQL so it's probably very obvious but I've been trying to fix this for ages. Thanks for any insight.
Interesting. It looks like proc sql
doesn't allow you to insert multiple rows using a single VALUES
clause. So just use two statements:
INSERT INTO Summary_1920 (Variable, Count, Percentage)
VALUES ("Variable1", 100, 90.8);
INSERT INTO Summary_1920 (Variable, Count, Percentage)
VALUES ("Variable2", 8, 7.0);
I think it also supports multiple VALUES
clauses in one statement:
INSERT INTO Summary_1920 (Variable, Count, Percentage)
VALUES ("Variable1", 100, 90.8)
VALUES ("Variable2", 8, 7.0);
This is not SQL standard syntax and I'm not familiar with any other database that supports it. Your version with commas is standard -- or at least supported by most databases.