Usage Note 16074: "WARNING: At least one nonessential grouping column reference has been
removed from a GROUP BY's reference list"
This Warning occurs in SAS® 9 when referencing a column on the GROUP
BY clause which was created by using a constant value on the SELECT
clause.
This Warning did not occur in versions of SAS prior to SAS 9.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Solaris | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Linux | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| z/OS | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| HP-UX IPF | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Tru64 UNIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| AIX | 9 TS M0 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
*
For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
| Type: | Usage Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> Procedures ==> SQL
SAS Reference ==> SQL
|
| Date Modified: | 2006-09-26 10:38:38 |
| Date Created: | 2005-08-31 13:46:23 |
