SUPPORT / SAMPLES & SAS NOTES
Problem Note 70302: Oracle numeric columns might be created as a NUMBER rather than a BINARY_DOUBLE data type
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With SAS/ACCESS® Interface to Oracle, numeric variables might be incorrectly created as a NUMBER data type rather than a DOUBLE_BINARY data type when you access Oracle 12c or later and when one of the following is true:
- You specified the OR_BINARY_DOUBLE=YES option in the LIBNAME statement.
- You do not have the OR_BINARY_DOUBLE= option specified in the LIBNAME statement.
Workaround
To circumvent this issue, use the DBTYPE= data set option to set the variable defined with a DOUBLE_BINARY data type.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
This hot fix addresses the issue where the OR_BINARY_DOUBLE=YES option is specified in the LIBNAME statement only. Otherwise, you would need to add the option to the LIBNAME statement or use the DBTYPE= workaround.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle | z/OS | ||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | ||||||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | ||||||
| OS/2 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 11 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 95/98 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 for x64 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2022 | ||||||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | ||||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | ||||||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | ||||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | ||||||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | ||||||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | ||||||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | ||||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | ||||||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | ||||||
| Windows Millennium Edition (Me) | ||||||
| Windows Vista | ||||||
| Windows Vista for x64 | ||||||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | ||||||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | ||||||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | ||||||
| ABI+ for Intel Architecture | ||||||
| AIX | ||||||
| HP-UX | ||||||
| HP-UX IPF | ||||||
| IRIX | ||||||
| Linux | ||||||
| Linux for x64 | ||||||
| Linux on Itanium | ||||||
| OpenVMS Alpha | ||||||
| OpenVMS on HP Integrity | ||||||
| Solaris | ||||||
| Solaris for x64 | ||||||
| Tru64 UNIX | ||||||
| SAS System | SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle (on SAS Viya) | Linux for x64 | V.03.01 | Viya | ||