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Problem Note 17463: Incorrect length assigned to character variables using SAS/ACCESS® Interface to ODBC and SAS 9.1.3 SP4
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Users of SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC on Windows SAS® 9.1.3 may find that the length assigned to character variables is incorrect after SP4 has been installed. It has been reported that character variables have a length of 8 assigned after the service pack has been applied.
Until this issue is resolved, customers can use PROC SQL Pass-Through and specify the correct length for variables. For example,
proc sql;
connect to odbc
("DSN=Excel Files;DBQ=k:\saskwg\Excel97Files\test1.xls");
create table work.test1
as select Name format=$8. informat=$8. length=8
from connection to odbc(select * from "Sheet1$");
disconnect from odbc;
quit;
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||