Error updating table metadata SAS 9.4

[HeidiDT]

Hi All

I registered an Oracle table in metadata, then made a change to the table (modified a numeric column size from 10 to 15) and then tried to update the table metadata, but got this error:

ERROR: Invalid or missing "Delimiter" or "DefaultValue" attribute value from Property object with "UseValueOnly" attribute set to
FALSE. Metadata incorrect.

I have no idea what it means, has anyone encountered this error before?

Thanks!

[LinusH]

Numerical variables in external databases typically doesn't have sizes. SAS variables has a byte size (between 3 and 8 for most operating environments).
So in SAS metadata external numerical columns default to 8 bytes, and there makes little sense to change this.
What is your original Oracle data type?
Perhaps your after only to change the SAS display format?
A screenshot would help understand what you are trying to do.

[HeidiDT]

Hi

The field is defined in Oracle as NUMBER (10). When the table metadata is registered, the data type is indeed integer, but a format and informat of 11. is applied. So when the field is modified to NUMBER (15), the format and informat will be changed to 16., and I need to test the impact of this in SAS jobs

[LinusH]

Oh, so if you such an error during normal update, perform the regular metadata clean up tasks.
If you still get the error report to SAS Tech support.
Changing the format will probably not change anything when it comes to SAS ETL processing, but if course the metadata should be correct 😊

[HeidiDT]

Exactly! No problems with the eventual result but it is messy and I don't like it lol. So I think it has more to do with the Oracle schema I used to do the test, worked perfectly when I used a different schema. Don't know why and am not even going to try and figure it out. I manged to do what I wanted to do 🙂

Thanks!