When writing large decimal values in Unicode SAS^® to SQL Server using SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC, you can get the following error:

The problem occurs when you write large, unformatted values to SQL Server. If you run the CONTENTS procedure on the SAS data set, you might see a value similar to the following: 

Note: In the value above, BEST16 is the unformatted value. 

The problem occurs regardless of which ODBC driver you use. It does not occur in Latin1 SAS. 

To circumvent the problem, add a format to the variable using a FORMAT statement similar to the one below:

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