topic Re: Moving SAS tables to Oracle DB in SAS Enterprise Guide

Moving SAS tables to Oracle DB

hatsumi — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:47:41 GMT

Hi I have a SAS dataset in a temp work library and I want to move this table to Oracle DB.

Here's the code I run and I got below error message.

proc sql;

create table oracle.new_data as

select * from work.orig_data;

quit;

ERROR: Error attempting to CREATE a DBMS table. ERROR: ORACLE execute error: ORA-01727: numeric precision specifier is out of range (1 to 38)..

After some test runs, I identified that fields with below formats seems to be the issue for above error msg, but I can't figure out how to resolve this problem. Does anyone know how to possibly reformat (?) or do something to move this data in temp work library to Oracle DB?

Type	Len	Format
Num	8	F40.2

Thanks!

Re: Moving SAS tables to Oracle DB

ChrisBrooks — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:10:05 GMT

This is the most helpful reference I can find to a format I admit I'd never heard of before http://support.sas.com/kb/35/058.html

Re: Moving SAS tables to Oracle DB

RW9 — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:17:24 GMT

Never heard of that format. Is the data actually length 40? If it is shorter then simply re-applying the format with a shorter length should fix it, however if it is that length then you would lose display of some of the data, and you would still get the message.

proc datasets library=work;
  modify have format thevar f30.2;
run;
quit;

Re: Moving SAS tables to Oracle DB

hatsumi — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 11:45:21 GMT

Thank you RW9! This worked for me!!