topic SAS ERROR: Read Access Violation TRANSPOSE in SAS Programming

SAS ERROR: Read Access Violation TRANSPOSE

rajesh_k_jha_accenture_com — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:14:13 GMT

Hi Team,

I am getting below exception and error while Transposing a dataset in SAS. Can anyone please help me on this?

ERROR: An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:

The SAS task name is [TRANSPOSE]
ERROR: Read Access Violation TRANSPOSE
Exception occurred at (0CEBEA19)
Task Traceback
Address Frame (DBGHELP API Version 4.0 rev 5)

Thanks in advance for your help,

Regards,

Rajesh

Re: SAS ERROR: Read Access Violation TRANSPOSE

RW9 — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:24:50 GMT

Close your session completey, open a new fresh session, run your program up to that point. I.e. test its not just something clogged up in your session. Re-run your code, do it step by step, make sure everything needed for the step is present - i.e. no errors/warnings, data present etc, so the code should function. Etc. debug as far as you can.

If it does it again, then I would suggest doing as the text states, contact technical support with that information. Could be any number of things.

Re: SAS ERROR: Read Access Violation TRANSPOSE

Reeza — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 14:40:06 GMT

Does it happen everytime you run the code or is it a one time occurence? Also, without the code, there's no way to tell what the issue might be.

Re: SAS ERROR: Read Access Violation TRANSPOSE

rajesh_k_jha_accenture_com — Mon, 23 May 2016 12:31:38 GMT

HI Reeza,

It is happening with certain specific data but not with every input data. So, trying to find out the reason and pattern which is causing this issue:

Below is the SAS code, which i am trying to execute:

libname test "C:\Rajesh\HRA\AL_CERT\Input_May_06\test_datasets";

PROC TRANSPOSE DATA= test.ac_cert_check OUT=al_cert_check_tr;
BY A--AE;
VAR AF--JW;
RUN;

For reference, I have attached the input dataset.

Regards,

Rajesh

Re: SAS ERROR: Read Access Violation TRANSPOSE

Tim_SAS — Mon, 23 May 2016 13:13:31 GMT

SAS should never fail with this kind of error. Contact SAS Technical Support. They're in the best position to be able to diagnose the problem and provide you with a fix or workaround.