Problem Note 42129: PROC SQL join operations result in "Floating Point Zero Divide" errors when the join columns are character and are extremely large
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SQL procedure join operations might result in Floating Point Zero Divide errors in SAS® 9.1.3 if the join columns are character and the lengths are extremely long.
Performing joins in PROC SQL and using column(s) in the WHERE or ON clause that have very long lengths might result in the following errors:
ERROR: Floating Point Zero Divide. ERROR: Termination due to Floating Point Exception
In SAS 9.1.3, these errors occur when the length of the character columns was between 31,091 and 32,609.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
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 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 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 this issue for Base SAS 9.21_M3 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/B25.html#42129| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2012-12-20 11:45:12 |
| Date Created: | 2011-01-20 10:50:47 |