Problem Note 20315: The SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office might return empty cells when filtering large tables
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You might receive a blank Microsoft Excel worksheet using the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office to subset data on large tables. If you open the data into the worksheet and attempt to filter on a particular variable, it will appear to process and complete; however, no data will be returned to the worksheet.
This is happening because the SQL code that executes to retrieve the data is pulling back more data than needed to display in the worksheet. This causes a performance hit and ultimately results in a blank table.
A workaround to this problem is to make your input table smaller in size so when you subset the data, the performance hit is not as significant, and the data is returned.
Please refer to SAS Note 30697 for another issue regarding filtering large tables in Excel when selecting all the columns.
Select the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Add-in for Microsoft Office | Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 2.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.2 TS2M0 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 2.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 2.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 2.1 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | ||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 2.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 2.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 2.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 2.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 2.1 | 4.2 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP1 | 9.2 TS2M0 | ||