Problem Note 43754: MySQL column lengths might be incorrect in your SAS session when you use SAS/ACCESS® 9.2 Interface to MySQL to access MySQL data
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When you access MySQL data with SAS/ACCESS 9.2 Interface to MySQL, column lengths might be different in SAS than what they are in the MySQL database. When this situation occurs, the following error is generated:
ERROR: Execute error: Data too long for column 'variableName' at row 1
This situation occurs when your SAS® 9.2 session uses the Unicode UTF-8 encoding.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
After you install the hot fix, you need to use the LIBNAME option USE_CHAR_COUNT=YES.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to MySQL | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Linux | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.3 TS1M1 | ||
A fix for this issue for SAS/ACCESS Interface to MySQL 9.21_M2 is available at:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/HF2/E71.html#43754| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2011-08-16 14:10:41 |
| Date Created: | 2011-07-15 12:19:58 |