ERROR: This range is repeated, or values overlap: – .
This is another posting in an occasional series on SAS error and warning messages that aren’t as clear as they’d need to be. What produced the message was my creation of a control data set that I then wished to [...]
WARNING: Engine XPORT does not support SORTEDBY operations. SORTEDBY information cannot be copied.
When recently creating a transport file using PROC COPY and the XPORT library engine, I found the above message in the log. The code used was similar to the following: libname tran xport “c:\temp\tran.xpt”; proc copy in=data out=tran; run; When [...]
ERROR: Ambiguous reference, column xx is in more than one table.
Sometimes, SAS messages are not all that they seem and a number of them are issued from PROC SQL when something goes awry with your code. In fact, I got a message like the above when ordering the results of [...]