topic Re: Read Access violation in proc survey means in SAS Programming https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Access-violation-in-proc-survey-means/m-p/651897#M195630 <P>I suggest you follow the advice in the log and track this to SAS Tech Support. A read acccess violation is a pretty serious error and it means the SAS procedure cannot properly handle your data and procedure settings.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>You could also try running this with a much smaller sample of data to see if that helps.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Sat, 30 May 2020 00:01:42 GMT SASKiwi 2020-05-30T00:01:42Z Read Access violation in proc survey means https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Access-violation-in-proc-survey-means/m-p/651893#M195627 <P>Getting this error while running proc surveymeans</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>proc surveymeans data=ms;/*mean LOS*/<BR />2336 weight discwt;<BR />2337 cluster hospid;<BR />2338 strata nis_stratum;<BR />2339 domain msc;<BR />2340 var LOS;</P><P><BR />ERROR: An exception has been encountered.<BR />Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:</P><P>The SAS task name is [SURVEYMEANS]<BR />ERROR: Read Access Violation SURVEYMEANS<BR />Exception occurred at (0688A65F)<BR />Task Traceback<BR />Address Frame (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)<BR />000000000688A65F 000000004EB55180 sasods:tkvercn1+0x12961F<BR />000000004827B91E 000000004EB55188 sasstgr:tkvercn1+0x5A8DE<BR />00000000482AE80A 000000004EB55B10 sasstgr:tkvercn1+0x8D7CA<BR />0000000048298E8F 000000004EB55E00 sasstgr:tkvercn1+0x77E4F<BR />0000000008BBFACA 000000004EB55E08 sasoda:tkvercn1+0x7EA8A<BR />0000000008B5FDC8 000000004EB55F40 sasoda:tkvercn1+0x1ED88<BR />0000000008BBFACA 000000004EB55F80 sasoda:tkvercn1+0x7EA8A<BR />0000000008B424F8 000000004EB56590 sasoda:tkvercn1+0x14B8<BR />0000000047EE0DAA 000000004EB56598 sasmrk:tkvercn1+0x10FD6A<BR />0000000047E649E0 000000004EB56B40 sasmrk:tkvercn1+0x939A0<BR />0000000028C466BA 000000004EB56B48 sastags:tkvercn1+0x5567A<BR />0000000028C1FEF5 000000004EB57120 sastags:tkvercn1+0x2EEB5<BR />000000002600ADFA 000000004EB57128 sasxml:tkvercn1+0x49DBA<BR />0000000025FC25DA 000000004EB57210 sasxml:tkvercn1+0x159A<BR />0000000006973BEA 000000004EB57250 sasods:tkvercn1+0x212BAA<BR />0000000006823F6A 000000004EB575C0 sasods:tkvercn1+0xC2F2A<BR />00000000067BEDA3 000000004EB57CA0 sasods:tkvercn1+0x5DD63<BR />0000000006973BEA 000000004EB57CE0 sasods:tkvercn1+0x212BAA<BR />00000000067D4805 000000004EB5BD10 sasods:tkvercn1+0x737C5<BR />0000000006973BEA 000000004EB5BD50 sasods:tkvercn1+0x212BAA<BR />00000000067C4B72 000000004EB5DFE0 sasods:tkvercn1+0x63B32<BR />000000004F1EF12A 000000004EB5DFE8 sasqsmea:tkvercn1+0xCE0EA<BR />000000004F19225F 000000004EB5EC10 sasqsmea:tkvercn1+0x7121F<BR />000000004F1257EC 000000004EB5F2D0 sasqsmea:tkvercn1+0x47AC<BR />000000004F121627 000000004EB5FBC0 sasqsmea:tkvercn1+0x5E7<BR />00000000033289DB 000000004EB5FBC8 sashost:Main+0x10EBB<BR />000000000332E61D 000000004EB5FF20 sashost:Main+0x16AFD<BR />00007FF8D53A7BD4 000000004EB5FF28 KERNEL32:BaseThreadInitThunk+0x14<BR />00007FF8D682CED1 000000004EB5FF58 ntdll:RtlUserThreadStart+0x21</P><P>NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.<BR />NOTE: PROCEDURE SURVEYMEANS used (Total process time):<BR />real time 24:43.38<BR />cpu time 1:52.67</P> Fri, 29 May 2020 23:08:27 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Access-violation-in-proc-survey-means/m-p/651893#M195627 olabuh 2020-05-29T23:08:27Z Re: Read Access violation in proc survey means https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Access-violation-in-proc-survey-means/m-p/651896#M195629 <P>Did you contact Tech support?</P> <P>The address is support-at-sas-dot-com.&nbsp;</P> <P>Include the output of <FONT face="courier new,courier">proc setinit</FONT> in the email.</P> Sat, 30 May 2020 00:01:28 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Access-violation-in-proc-survey-means/m-p/651896#M195629 ChrisNZ 2020-05-30T00:01:28Z Re: Read Access violation in proc survey means https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Access-violation-in-proc-survey-means/m-p/651897#M195630 <P>I suggest you follow the advice in the log and track this to SAS Tech Support. A read acccess violation is a pretty serious error and it means the SAS procedure cannot properly handle your data and procedure settings.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>You could also try running this with a much smaller sample of data to see if that helps.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Sat, 30 May 2020 00:01:42 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Read-Access-violation-in-proc-survey-means/m-p/651897#M195630 SASKiwi 2020-05-30T00:01:42Z