Wednesday, December 17, 2014

SAS crash with BULKLOAD and ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server

SAS 9.4 (TS1M2) crashes hard when using BULKLOAD=YES with the latest Microsoft ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server. For a brief moment you may see in the SAS log ERROR: BCP initialize error: [Microsoft][ODBC Driver 11 for SQL Server]Connection is not enabled for BCP, and then the SAS window closes.

The Windows Event Viewer has the following information:

Faulting application name: sas.exe, version: 9402.0.21456.21239, time stamp: 0x53d05339
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18229, time stamp: 0x51fb1072
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x000ce753
Faulting process id: 0x5724
Faulting application start time: 0x01d004d90519e3fc
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\SASHome2\x86\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 4c84f206-70cc-11e4-bd42-0205857feb80

SAS Support acknowledged the crash and will address it in the next maintenance release. At this time I do not see any KB article.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Fibonacci sequence in R and SAS

Because the Fibonacci sequence is simply defined by recursion, it makes for an elegant programming exercise. Here is one way to do it in SAS, and another way to do it in R. I've also included unit testing code to check that it works.

Get HTML of iframes in Microsoft Playwright

Playwright is a powerful framework for web testing and automation. This article demonstrates how to extract the HTML content of child IFRAME...