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robertrao
Quartz | Level 8


Hi,

I was trying to use SET statement to pull data from a dataset.

It says the name is too long . It was named that way in the "apple library "

data WANT;

SET apple. HOSPITALREADMISSIONDATASUMMARYINFORMATION;

WHERE put(accountid,accounts.)="true";

RUN;

THE TABLE IS NAMED LIKE THAT IN sql SERVER AND I AM USING LIBNAME STATEMENT TO CONNECT TO THAT TABLE

ERROR 307-185: The data set name cannot have more than 32 characters.

Could you please help me understand the concept?

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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

The concept is simple. SAS supports table names (and variable names) up to 32 characters long.

If you have a table in your SQL database with a name longer than that then you need to rename it or create a view to it that uses a shorter name.

If you cannot get it renamed then you will need to use passthrouh SQL instead of LIBNAME to reference the table.

proc sql ;

connect using apple;

create table want as select *

from connection to apple

(select * from HOSPITALREADMISSIONDATASUMMARYINFORMATION)

WHERE put(accountid,accounts.)="true";

quit;


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Tom
Super User Tom
Super User

The concept is simple. SAS supports table names (and variable names) up to 32 characters long.

If you have a table in your SQL database with a name longer than that then you need to rename it or create a view to it that uses a shorter name.

If you cannot get it renamed then you will need to use passthrouh SQL instead of LIBNAME to reference the table.

proc sql ;

connect using apple;

create table want as select *

from connection to apple

(select * from HOSPITALREADMISSIONDATASUMMARYINFORMATION)

WHERE put(accountid,accounts.)="true";

quit;


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