topic Getting ERROR: Specified resource already exists. in SAS Data Management

Getting ERROR: Specified resource already exists.

neha11_ch — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 06:41:52 GMT

Hi All,

When I am running below peice of code, I am getting error message :

/****Code *****/

%put %str(NOTE: Creating indexes in Parallel...);

proc datasets lib = VL00 nolist;

modify VL0004_005D_Employee_Sensitive (asyncindex=YES);

index create VL0004_004D_Employee_Sk ;

index create Employee_Id ;

index create Person_Id ;

quit;

/*****Log ********/

MPRINT(ETLS_LOADER): ;

NOTE: Creating indexes in Parallel...

MPRINT(ETLS_LOADER): proc datasets lib = VL00 nolist;

MPRINT(ETLS_LOADER): modify VL0004_005D_Employee_Sensitive (asyncindex=YES);

MPRINT(ETLS_LOADER): index create VL0004_004D_Employee_Sk ;

NOTE: Because ASYNC operations create indexes in parallel, the status for all defined indexes will be determined at closing time.

NOTE: Simple index VL0004_004D_Employee_Sk has been defined.

MPRINT(ETLS_LOADER): index create Employee_Id ;

ERROR: Specified resource already exists.

MPRINT(ETLS_LOADER): index create Person_Id ;

MPRINT(ETLS_LOADER): quit;

NOTE: Statements not processed because of errors noted above.

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

NOTE: SAS set option OBS=0 and will continue to check statements. This might cause NOTE: No observations in data set.

NOTE: PROCEDURE DATASETS used (Total process time):

real time 1.55 seconds

cpu time 0.00 seconds

Re: Getting ERROR: Specified resource already exists.

Kalind_Patel — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 07:08:37 GMT

It might be a long shot, but if the sas table currently exists (from a previous try) then it'll need deleting before running the code again.

Re: Getting ERROR: Specified resource already exists.

neha11_ch — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 08:30:49 GMT

In the code, every time I am dropping the table first and then recreating it. And then i am trying to create indexes. The same code is working perfectly fine in production environment but not in testing environment.

Re: Getting ERROR: Specified resource already exists.

Kalind_Patel — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 09:00:47 GMT

Please try this code

%put %str(NOTE: Creating indexes in Parallel...);
proc datasets lib = VL00 nolist;
modify VL0004_005D_Employee_Sensitive (asyncindex=YES);
index delete VL0004_004D_Employee_Sk ;
index delete Employee_Id ;
index delete Person_Id ;
index create VL0004_004D_Employee_Sk ;
index create Employee_Id ;
index create Person_Id ;
quit;