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Saurabh_Rana
Obsidian | Level 7

While executing a PROC SQL statement on a big data file I am getting this error -                                     "ERROR: Out of memory while converting blob to table"

 

How to resolve this issue?

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LinusH
Tourmaline | Level 20

The message make think that you are using PROC SQL towards an ACCESS libref.

Add

options msglevel=i sastrace=',,,d' sastraceloc=saslog nostsuffix fullstimer;

and share the log.

Potentially try the operation with a smaller input with above options to learn how the environment behaves.

 

Data never sleeps
SASKiwi
PROC Star

What version of SAS are you using? If its SAS 9.4, blobs have to be cast as character variables and the variable size limit is 32K. Viya has higher limits I understand. 

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