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Problem Note 16015: Unable to drop a Sybase table using the DELETE statement with PROC DATASETS
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The following error message may be issued when attempting to drop a Sybase table using the DELETE statement with PROC DATASETS:
ERROR: Error executing statement. Error Code: -3701.
Cannot drop the table '[table_name_here]', because it
doesn't exist in the system catalogs.
For example:
proc datasets lib=syb;
delete "SybaseLoadingJob3x"n;
quit;
The problem is that when the SCHEMA libname option is used, the drop table routine does not call the routine to fully qualify the name of the table.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Sybase | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||