Please help!
I have several SAS tables that I'm unable to access. I'm am receiving a message, "ERROR: Expecting page 6404, got page -1 instead. ERROR: Page validation error while reading...."
How do I fix or work around?
Thank you!
This error usually occurs when the data set is damaged. Your best bet is to restore it from a known good backup or recreate it.
Can you post an example with the code and log?
I sometimes get that message in SAS UE but it usually doesn't affect my data usage.
Have you tried restarting SAS and resetting your library connections to see what happens?
@gnesshunkin wrote:
Please help!
I have several SAS tables that I'm unable to access. I'm am receiving a message, "ERROR: Expecting page 6404, got page -1 instead. ERROR: Page validation error while reading...."
How do I fix or work around?
Thank you!
Below is the code and error. I've restarted the server but the error continues.
The table is 1,969,163 records...only 800,353 are present when I run the code.
If you're running a server, you should probably contact SAS Tech Support to help you debug this.
Any chance an update or backup process interrupted somehow damaging the tables?
@gnesshunkin wrote:
Below is the code and error. I've restarted the server but the error continues.
The table is 1,969,163 records...only 800,353 are present when I run the code.
data blah;set sas.return;run;ERROR: Expecting page 6404, got page -1 instead.ERROR: Page validation error while reading SAS.RETURN.DATA.ERROR: File SAS.RETURN.DATA is damaged. I/O processing did not complete.NOTE: The DATA step has been abnormally terminated.NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.NOTE: There were 800353 observations read from the data set SAS.RETURN.WARNING: The data set WORK.BLAH may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 800353 observations and 106 variables.NOTE: DATA statement used (Total process time):real time 0.59 secondscpu time 0.57 seconds
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