Problem Note 39304: SQL views of DBMS tables may not return aliased column names
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A PROC SQL view of DBMS tables which uses the EXISTS condition with a correlated subquery and column aliases to rename columns, may not return those new column names. Using the view in a Data Step with the DROP, KEEP or RENAME statement will return a warning similar to:
WARNING: The variable XXXXXXX in the DROP, KEEP, or RENAME list has never been referenced.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | z/OS | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 |
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | 9.3 TS1M0 | ||
A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) for this issue is available at:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_sbcs_prod_list.html#039304A fix for SAS 9.1.3 (9.1 TS1M3) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at:
http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/e9_dbcs_prod_list.html#039304A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.21_M3 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/B25.html#39304| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2010-04-09 13:44:39 |
| Date Created: | 2010-04-08 10:51:15 |