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Problem while registering tables in SAS Management Console

Kugsht — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 13:34:22 GMT

Hi guys, I'm having a weir problem when i'm trying to register tables by using OLEDB.

It shows this error.

"Error OLEDB Engine cannot be found”

“Error in the libname statement”.

Please help :/!

Re: Problem while registering tables in SAS Management Console

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:06:52 GMT

Does the libname statement as taken from the log work in a standard workspace server (ie from EG or SAS Studio)?

Do you have SAS/ACCESS to OLE DB licensed?

Re: Problem while registering tables in SAS Management Console

Kugsht — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:32:00 GMT

Yes, i have the license for SAS/ACCESS to OLEDB.

The error appears inside the SAS Management Console

Thanks for replying 🙂

Re: Problem while registering tables in SAS Management Console

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 15:44:54 GMT

As SAS/ACCESS to RDBMS (of which Access to OLE DB is a part) often requires additional setup (usually in the form of setting certain environment variables), could it be that the workspace server used from SMC lacks those, while the workspace server used from EG has them?

(compare SASMeta - Workspace Server vs. SASApp - Workspace Server)

Re: Problem while registering tables in SAS Management Console

Madelyn_SAS — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:51:10 GMT

Here is a link to the documentation on setting up the connection:

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/bidsag/69848/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0gu0ue4ptm3ocn1iw6tzw4tb9pt.htm

Re: Problem while registering tables in SAS Management Console

Kugsht — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 15:08:31 GMT

I just realized that the SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB is not instaled, and i cant find the setup 😕

and i have the license for it... what can i do?

Microsoft Windows Server for x64
Base SAS 29JUN2017
SAS Metadata Server 29JUN2017
SAS Studio 29JUN2017
SAS Visual Analytics 29JUN2017
SAS Visual Analytics LASR Server Non-Distributed 29JUN2017
SAS Visual Statistics 29JUN2017
SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB 29JUN2017
SAS/CONNECT 29JUN2017

Re: Problem while registering tables in SAS Management Console

JuanS_OCS — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 15:23:13 GMT

If you have the license, you should not require to install anything extra, since it is done automatically for you during the installation of SAS Foundation.

Could you follow the guide provided above?

Re: Problem while registering tables in SAS Management Console

Kugsht — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 15:49:48 GMT

I was following them, but when i'm creating the registering the OLEDB server, it doesn't show the default information that is displayed on the image.

I'm not getting those paremeters by default.

Server Properties

Field

Sample Value

Major Version Number	`4`
Minor Version Number	`0`
Data Source Type	OLE DB — Other Database
Software Version	`4.0`
Vendor	`Microsoft Corp.`
Associated Machine	Defaults to your machine

----

In my case i'm getting

Server Properties

Field

Sample Value

Major Version Number	`0`
Minor Version Number	`0`
Data Source Type	OLE DB — Other Database
Software Version
Vendor	`Microsoft Corp.`
Associated Machine	"The name of my machine"

Re: Problem while registering tables in SAS Management Console

JuanS_OCS — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:20:06 GMT

I am wondering.... maybe you are missing the OLEDB drivers (or the right ones to your databases) to be installed on your SAS server.

Something else to consider: OLEDB is a deprecated functionality on the SQL Servers. It does not come with the database by default.

Therefore, If you have a new database, you need to ask your System admin to have the drivers installed on the SQL Server side, and the right ones on your SAS Server.

Re: Problem while registering tables in SAS Management Console

Kugsht — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 20:24:32 GMT

Thanks for the help, the problem was that the SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLEDB wasn't installed.