BookmarkSubscribeRSS Feed
🔒 This topic is solved and locked. Need further help from the community? Please sign in and ask a new question.
Steelers_In_DC
Barite | Level 11

I have never heard the term clob before yesterday so I am very new to the subject.  If something is stored in clob will it be as easy as using an import wizard to pull it into SAS?  Does anyone know of any good documentation on the topic?

Thanks,

Mark

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Accepted Solutions
LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

CLOB is as you might know "character large object", a data type in Oracle (and others?).

Since SAS has limited to 32K for char variables, the information in your CLOBs might be truncated when accessing these using the SAS/ACCESS libname engine for your RDBMS.

A work around is to use explicit SQL pass-thru to access the data. If you need it in SAS, try to split the CLOB into smaller chunks, before accessing/importing it to SAS.

41575 - SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Oracle supports BLOB and CLOB data types with a character limit of ...

Data never sleeps

View solution in original post

1 REPLY 1
LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

CLOB is as you might know "character large object", a data type in Oracle (and others?).

Since SAS has limited to 32K for char variables, the information in your CLOBs might be truncated when accessing these using the SAS/ACCESS libname engine for your RDBMS.

A work around is to use explicit SQL pass-thru to access the data. If you need it in SAS, try to split the CLOB into smaller chunks, before accessing/importing it to SAS.

41575 - SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Oracle supports BLOB and CLOB data types with a character limit of ...

Data never sleeps

sas-innovate-2024.png

Join us for SAS Innovate April 16-19 at the Aria in Las Vegas. Bring the team and save big with our group pricing for a limited time only.

Pre-conference courses and tutorials are filling up fast and are always a sellout. Register today to reserve your seat.

 

Register now!

How to Concatenate Values

Learn how use the CAT functions in SAS to join values from multiple variables into a single value.

Find more tutorials on the SAS Users YouTube channel.

Click image to register for webinarClick image to register for webinar

Classroom Training Available!

Select SAS Training centers are offering in-person courses. View upcoming courses for:

View all other training opportunities.

Discussion stats
  • 1 reply
  • 9403 views
  • 2 likes
  • 2 in conversation