How many datasets can you import to a Library in SAS EG?

[KALLEN]

How many datasets can you put in a library? Or what is the max size of datasets that a library can hold?

I received an error:

ERROR: Insufficient space in file DEMO5.JAN2017_KA.DATA.

[r_behata]

Perhaps it is limited only by the amount of resources available in the system.

[r_behata]

Your  Hard disk seems to be full, You may need to clean up some space.

Are you running Windows or Linux/Unix ?

[KALLEN]

Windows

[ballardw]

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@KALLEN wrote:

How many datasets can you put in a library? Or what is the max size of datasets that a library can hold?

I received an error:

ERROR: Insufficient space in file DEMO5.JAN2017_KA.DATA.

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If you are working with EG in a server environment you may need to talk to you SAS Admin about any limits that may have been set for your connection or the target library.

Since we have questions occasionally about datasets exceeding terabyte size I doubt that default limits of file sizes are the issue.

[Kurt_Bremser · Accepted solution]

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@KALLEN wrote:

How many datasets can you put in a library? Or what is the max size of datasets that a library can hold?

I received an error:

ERROR: Insufficient space in file DEMO5.JAN2017_KA.DATA.

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You simply ran out of disk space on the physical storage volume that contains the directory to which the library DEMO5 points; it might also be that a foresighted admin installed a quota regime, and you exhausted your personal quota.

SAS does not impose any limit on the number of datasets in a library. A limit might come from the operating system,or from available memory for the display window, but all those limits are ridiculously high these days; much more limiting is the time it takes to read the dataset names into a server list window, and how much we as users/programmers can deal with before we are overwhelmed/annoyed by sheer numbers. I guess nobody is fond of having to browse through 100,000 datasets in search for a specific one.