Size of SAS egp project

[SASdevAnneMarie]

Hello Experts,

I have a question. I don't understand why my SAS egp project became very huge (10 365 Ko):

I use the proc datasets to delete all the table in library work, so I yhave no table.

Thank you very much! 

[Kurt_Bremser]

Check your results and logs.

[SASdevAnneMarie]

Thank you for your answer!
I have no data in project and I put the "options nosource";
I still have the same size of project. 😞

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@SASdevAnneMarie wrote:
Thank you for your answer!
I have no data in project and I put the "options nosource";
I still have the same size of project. 😞

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Please re-read my post with proper diligence. I explicitly did not talk about data, but results and logs. Check all those with your own eyes.

[SASdevAnneMarie]

Thank you, I see.
I have no results because I used "ODS NORESULTS;"

I can't understand why the log is not deleted with "options nosource";

Thank you!

[Kurt_Bremser]

The SOURCE option controls if the original code statements are sent to the log or not. NOTEs, WARNINGs and ERRORs are still sent to the log. If you repeat 10 steps for 5000 times in a macro, you'll have all those from 50.000 steps in the log.

If you have lots of data errors in your data, and a large value in the ERRORS option, this will also cause a large number of log messages.

[SASdevAnneMarie]

Thank you Kurt,

There is some option for not generating the log?
Thank you!

[Quentin · Accepted solution]

No log is a scary thing, but you can do it with:

proc printto log="NUL:";
run;

[SASdevAnneMarie]

Thank you!
That works, my project is not huge any more!

Best regards,
Marie

[Kurt_Bremser]

Instead of suppressing the log as a whole, you should look for the reason why it grows so big, and correct that. Very often, overly large logs point to problems (extraneous NOTEs, data ERROR's, ...) or to inefficient code (10000 data steps repeated in a macro loop instead of a single data step with by group processing).

So you should review your whole process very carefully, and pay attention to details. Garbage code stays garbage code, even if you refuse to look.

[Quentin]

I think .egp files are still zipped xml.  So if you're really curious what's driving the file size, you could make a copy of the egp file, unzip it to a folder, and poke around a bit to see which files are the largest and what's in them.  You don't say much about what's in the egp file, so it's hard to guess.

[ChrisHemedinger]

EG projects do not store your data, but they do keep your ODS results and log output.  If you have Project Log enabled, you might want to clear it (see Project Properties, Project Log -- check online help for details).