topic Re: Problem with joining SAS view of SAP table - /BI0/ in SAS Data Management https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Problem-with-joining-SAS-view-of-SAP-table-BI0/m-p/142646#M2274 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Used an alias for that table and it was fine.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:32:42 GMT maddysbi 2014-08-01T03:32:42Z Problem with joining SAS view of SAP table - /BI0/ https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Problem-with-joining-SAS-view-of-SAP-table-BI0/m-p/142645#M2273 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Team,</P><P>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I have been using the SAS Access to R3 interface to connect to SAP tables and successfully registered the required metadata for tables in DI Studio.Though it is fine,when I'm trying to create a join on these SAS views to extract required data, it is failing because internally these physical table names start with "/BI0/XXXXXXXXX" and SAS displays it as "_BI0_XXXXXXXX".I cannot load the entire data into separate tables and then extract as it will eat away my space leading to data duplication.I have tried enabling special characters in physical storage under properties of table,but it was of no use.</P><P>Please let me how to use these "/BI0/XXXXXXXXX" tables directly in my join.Any help is greatly appreciated.</P><P></P><P>Thanks,</P><P>Maddy</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:31:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Problem-with-joining-SAS-view-of-SAP-table-BI0/m-p/142645#M2273 maddysbi 2014-07-30T16:31:51Z Re: Problem with joining SAS view of SAP table - /BI0/ https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Problem-with-joining-SAS-view-of-SAP-table-BI0/m-p/142646#M2274 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Used an alias for that table and it was fine.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 01 Aug 2014 03:32:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Problem-with-joining-SAS-view-of-SAP-table-BI0/m-p/142646#M2274 maddysbi 2014-08-01T03:32:42Z Re: Problem with joining SAS view of SAP table - /BI0/ https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Problem-with-joining-SAS-view-of-SAP-table-BI0/m-p/142647#M2275 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If you experiment with the SAS option VALIDVARNAME = ANY and reference the tables&nbsp; like so: ""/BI0/XXXXXXXXX"n then that might possibly work as well.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Aug 2014 03:34:57 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Management/Problem-with-joining-SAS-view-of-SAP-table-BI0/m-p/142647#M2275 SASKiwi 2014-08-04T03:34:57Z