Problem Note 41575: SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Oracle supports BLOB and CLOB data types with a character limit of 32767
Support for BLOB (binary large object) and CLOB (character large object) data types are available in SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle. However, you are still limited to the SAS limit for character columns, which is 32767.
BLOB contains raw binary data of variable length up to 2 gigabytes. Values entered into columns of this type must be inserted as character strings in hexadecimal notation. When using LIBNAME statement, the default SAS format for BLOB is $HEXw. (where w is the minimum of 32767 and the value of the DBMAX_TEXT= option)
CLOB (character large object) contains varying-length character string data that is similar to type VARCHAR2. Type CLOB is character data of variable length with a maximum length of 2 gigabytes. You can define only one CLOB column per table. The default SAS format for Oracle data type CLOB is $w. (where w is the minimum of 32767 and the value of the DBMAX_TEXT= option)
SAS 9.2 Online Documentation: Data Types for Oracle
Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows Vista | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| HP-UX IPF | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Linux | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Linux for x64 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
| Solaris for x64 | 9.21_M2 | | 9.2 TS2M3 | |
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For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed
Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
fixed.
Support for BLOB (binary large object) and CLOB (character large object) data types are available in SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle. However, you are still limited to the SAS limit for character columns, which is 32767.
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | medium |
| Topic: | Data Management ==> Data Sources ==> External Databases ==> Oracle
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| Date Modified: | 2010-12-22 12:39:41 |
| Date Created: | 2010-11-11 15:33:03 |
