https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Problems-about-processing-a-huge-amount-of-data/m-p/1782#M798 Use SAS. It can handle it! Use the SAS Enterprise Guide interface. I am at a federal government agency with very large data sets. SAS &amp; Enterprise Guide work well for us. Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:22:35 GMT JohnH 2006-11-17T12:22:35Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Problems-about-processing-a-huge-amount-of-data/m-p/1781#M797 I am doing a project that need to analyze a huge amount of data (around 120 million records). Before doing data analysis, I need to process the data first. data processing like import the data, filtering, grouping,etc.<BR /> My raw data file is ASCII file. My idea is either doing data process in SAS or import the ASCII file to database. Can any one suggest the idea for me? Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:31:51 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Problems-about-processing-a-huge-amount-of-data/m-p/1781#M797 deleted_user 2006-11-17T07:31:51Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Problems-about-processing-a-huge-amount-of-data/m-p/1782#M798 Use SAS. It can handle it! Use the SAS Enterprise Guide interface. I am at a federal government agency with very large data sets. SAS &amp; Enterprise Guide work well for us. Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:22:35 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/ODS-and-Base-Reporting/Problems-about-processing-a-huge-amount-of-data/m-p/1782#M798 JohnH 2006-11-17T12:22:35Z