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Problem Note 42030: Oracle PREPARE error issued when SAS table is empty and no keys are in the WHERE clause
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The following error message is issued due to a regressions after applying HOT FIX E9BD33 in SAS 9.1.3.
ERROR: ORACLE prepare error: ORA-00936: missing expression. SQL statement: SELECT "ID", "NOM", "APEL" FROM ASD WHERE ( ). ERROR: PROC SQL runtime error for operation=sqxsrc. ERROR: An error has occurred.
The problem occurs when the SAS table is empty, and there are no keys to add in the WHERE clause.
To circumvent this issue, remove MULTI_DATASRC_OPT= from the LIBNAME statement, which can cause performance problems. Instead, use the DBKEY= option, and make sure that the SAS table contains data or upgrade to SAS 9.2.
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 | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||