When you use the EXPORT procedure and the option DBMS=DTA to create a Stata .dta file from a SAS data set, as shown in the following example, variable names are truncated to 8 characters.
proc export data=test2
outfile='c:\temp\test2.dta'
dbms=DTA replace;
run;
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Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
Reported | Fixed* | |||
SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to PC Files | Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |
Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | |||
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 | ||
Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP3 | 9.2 TS1M0 |