SAS code to read JSON column data from Teradata table

Question

I have a requirement to read data from Teradata table T1 in SAS.

When i run the below query from SAS, it will fetch the data but one of the column is missing which is of JSON data type.

Select * from T1;

Hence i tried with below query: Select CAST(json_column as char(5000)) from T1; When I run this query in Teradata sql assistant, it will work but throws error when I use it in sas EG. CAST & CHAR sql functions won't work in SAS? I appreciate any help here.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You need to use Teradata code in Teradata, not in SAS. So use explicit pass thru.

proc sql;
  connect to teradata .... ;
  select * from connection to teradata
    (select CAST(json_column as char(5000)) as JSONTEXT from T1)
  ;
quit; 

You might also want to use Teradata code to parse out the actual values you want from the JSON text object instead of just returning a string.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%40teradata.com+extracting+from+json+text