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Problem Note 62518: SAS® stops responding and "ERROR: Error fetching from cursor...Exception code=6..." occurs when you try to read a wide Oracle table
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Your SAS session might stop responding and return the following error when you try to read a very wide Oracle table:
ERROR: Error fetching from cursor. ORACLE error is RDBMS I/O thread exception.
Exception code=6, in_RDBMS_call=0.
ERROR: An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:
Exception code=6, in_RDBMS_call=0.
ERROR: An exception has been encountered.
Please contact technical support and provide them with the following traceback information:
This issue occurs under the following conditions:
- You try to read a very wide Oracle table with READBUFF=100000 in the LIBNAME statement.
- The MEMSIZE option is set to 8G.
To work around this problem, change the READBUFF option in the LIBNAME statement to READBUFF=10000. Another workaround is to set the SAS_ACCESS_PIPELINEREAD=OFF environment variable.
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle | 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4 TS1M4 | 9.4 TS1M6 |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4 TS1M4 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4 TS1M4 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Linux for x64 | 9.4 TS1M4 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.4 TS1M4 | 9.4 TS1M6 | ||