You might receive the following note when trying to read DATE values from a database into a SAS table:

NOTE: The data value for column COLNAME (COLNAME) was truncated or was out of range XX times when retrieving that data from the DBMS.

This note is issued when you try to read in a DATE value that is outside the range of a valid SAS dates, which are between 1582 A.D. and 20,000 A.D.