topic Re: Column not Accepted when Creating Oracle Table from SAS Dataset in SAS Programming

Column not Accepted when Creating Oracle Table from SAS Dataset

DavidPhillips2 — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:08:19 GMT

When I try to write a SAS dataset from SAS to Oracle I receive the error message:

ERROR: Error attempting to CREATE a DBMS table. ERROR: ORACLE execute error: ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis..

This might be due to the column names that I am trying to import. Oddly there is no ‘(‘ in the column names.

The list of column names is attached.

kiranv_ — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:37:06 GMT

try options validvarname = any;

DavidPhillips2 — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:41:39 GMT

Do use at the top of the script, like?

options validvarname = any;

libname ods oracle user=xxx password="xxxx" path=ods1 schema=xxxx dbserver_max_bytes=1;

kiranv_ — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:42:13 GMT

ya. try that

DavidPhillips2 — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:44:16 GMT

Same error. I think Oracle is more restrictive than SAS, looking into the restriction is tricky.

kiranv_ — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:47:29 GMT

try this one last time PRESERVE_COL_NAMES = Yes

DavidPhillips2 — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:54:32 GMT

The below worked:

proc sql;
create table ods.OPDS_IPEDS_MULTI_INST (PRESERVE_COL_NAMES = Yes) as
select * from yearsCombined;
quit;

Thanks for your help with this. I having a hard time researching this one.