Usage Note 19969: SQL*Loader error: Expecting positive integer or column name, found keyword year
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The following error message may be issued when attempting to BULKLOAD to Oracle a SAS dataset contains columns with names like: YEAR, MONTHS, DAY.
The error message from SQL*Loader is:
SQL*Loader-350: Syntax error at line1. Expecting positive integer or column name, found keyword year. R=BLANKS ,YEAR POSITION(75:82) DOUBLE NULLIF YEAR=BLANKS ,MONTH POSIT
These columns must be quoted to be used as object names.
To resolve this problem, use the libname or dataset option:
PRESERVE_COL_NAMES=YES.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle | Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 | |||
| Type: | Usage Note |
| Priority: | |
| Topic: | SAS Reference ==> LIBNAME Engines Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> External Databases ==> Oracle |
| Date Modified: | 2008-03-07 10:58:48 |
| Date Created: | 2007-04-13 12:29:08 |