topic Re: SAS viya using variable name RESULT in proc fedsql in SAS Procedures

SAS viya using variable name RESULT in proc fedsql

Ruan — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:10:13 GMT

Just wanted to see, mostly out of curiosity, what the experts think of below and this is also my first post so hoping I get it right 🙂

So was recently asked by a colleague to help investigate why his proc fedsql did not want to work. After some time playing around with the code I realised that the variable named "Result" was causing the Proc FedSQL to error. Changing the variable to anything other (except the word "value") on the same code seems to work fine. So just wondering is the words "Result" and "Value" reserved within the CASL language? I'm assuming it must be something along the lines if the Proc Fedsql converts the statements into CASL that it errors.

Below the error message and some sudo code that does the same.

82 proc fedsql sessref=auto;

NOTE: FEDSQL: Running on CAS due to "sessref".

83 select count(result)

84 from CASUSERHDFS.cars_test;

NOTE: Added action set 'fedsql'.

action returned string actionset = fedsql

NOTE: CAS action completed [OKAY]

FEDSQL: load of action set returned rc=00000000

ERROR: Syntax error at or near "result"

ERROR: The action stopped due to errors.

ERROR: The FedSQL action was not successful.

FEDSQL: The fedsql.execDirect action returned rc=0x000003f4

NOTE: PROC FEDSQL has set option NOEXEC and will continue to prepare statements.

85 quit;

cas auto;
options casdatalimit=all msglevel=i;

libname casuser cas caslib="CASUSERHDFS";

data casuser.cars_test;
set sashelp.cars;
result=horsepower/cylinders;
run;

proc fedsql sessref=auto;
select count(make)
from CASUSERHDFS.cars_test;
quit;

proc fedsql sessref=auto;
select count(result)
from CASUSERHDFS.cars_test;
quit;

Re: SAS viya using variable name RESULT in proc fedsql

qoit — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:36:05 GMT

The following words are reserved as FedSQL language keywords and cannot be used as variable names or in any other way.

FedSQL Reserved Words 'R' Alphabet

R

RANK

READ

READS

REAL

RECHECK

RECURSIVE

REF

REFERENCES

REFERENCING

REGR_AVGX

REGR_AVGY

REGR_COUNT

REGR_INTERCEPT

REGR_R2

REGR_SLOPE

REGR_SXX

REGR_SXY

REGR_SYY

REINDEX

RELATIVE

RENAME

REPLACE

RESET

RESTART

RESTRICT

RESULT

RETURN

RETURNS

REVOKE

RIGHT

ROLLBACK

ROLLUP

ROW

ROWS

ROW_NUMBER

RULE

Re: SAS viya using variable name RESULT in proc fedsql

Ruan — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 08:54:09 GMT

Ah cheers for that.. actually found the list of keywords that I somehow missed from the documentation yesterday 🙂

https://documentation.sas.com/?cdcId=pgmsascdc&cdcVersion=9.4_3.5&docsetId=fedsqlref&docsetTarget=p0x0k1rlx0l7e4n1ptngog3ce4jp.htm&locale=en