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Problem Note 20199: The same query produces different results when submitted using the Pass-Through Facility in SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Teradata and using Teradata BTEQ
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When you submit a query using the SQL Procedure Pass-Through Facility in SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata, the results in SAS might not be the same as the results from the same query when submitted using Teradata BTEQ.
When a column is not selected in SAS but is selected in Teradata, SAS will bypass that column. SAS also fails to bypass the NULL indicator that goes with that column.
As a result, if a NULL column is not selected followed by a NOT-NULL column that is selected, the NOT-NULL column will be treated as NULL.
To work around this behavior, the Pass-Through select list must match the select list in SAS, if any of the columns are NULLABLE.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Teradata | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | ||