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Problem Note 48751: Bulk-loading data from SAS® into Oracle fails and returns an "invalid username/password" error
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The following error might occur when using SAS on a UNIX platform and bulk-loading data into Oracle:
SQL*Loader-128: unable to begin a session
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
The error occurs if the Oracle user's password provided in the LIBNAME statement contains a dollar sign ($). The problem occurs because the user ID/password string used to call the Oracle SQL*Loader utility is not within quotation marks.
To work around the problem, do not use dollar signs in the Oracle user password.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle | Solaris for x64 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| Linux | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.3 TS1M2 | 9.4 TS1M0 | ||