17712 - Character strings are padded with trailing blanks when you use the LIBNAME engine in SAS/ACCESS® Interface to OLE DB

Problem Note 17712: Character strings are padded with trailing blanks when you use the LIBNAME engine in SAS/ACCESS® Interface to OLE DB

When you update character strings and use the OLEDB LIBNAME engine, the strings are padded with trailing blanks. Consider the following code example:

libname mylib oledb ...more options... ; proc sql; update mylib.strings set str='abc'; quit;

Assuming that the column STR has a length of 10 characters, the value that is stored in the table will be "abc ".

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Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
Product Family	Product	System	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB	Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4	9.2 TS1M0
		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 2000 Server	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

* 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.

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:

A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at :

A fix for this issue for SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB 9.21_M2 is available at:

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium
Topic:	SAS Reference ==> LIBNAME Engines Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> External Databases ==> OLEDB Third Party ==> Information Exchange ==> OLE DB (Object Linking and Embedding Database)

Date Modified:	2012-04-23 15:13:02
Date Created:	2006-05-17 11:57:21