Good Evening!
I want to export a dataset to *.txt containing 6 "normal" columns and 1.700.000 rows.. It takes almost 2,5 hours.. Sometimes SAS EG even freezes and collapses. What am im doing wrong? Or is it normal?
Thanks!
That one column of maximum length (32767) is killing you. It means SAS tries to write ~55 Gigabyte of text file.
Without that column, you'd only need 356 MB.
Please show the code, and column attribute information (eg output from proc contents).
sorry for the late Reply.. my eg collapsed again 😞
i dont know the Code.. i just "click" Export as *txt.. column attribute Information is attached..
But I realized that some column lengthare too Long.. is this the Problem?
That one column of maximum length (32767) is killing you. It means SAS tries to write ~55 Gigabyte of text file.
Without that column, you'd only need 356 MB.
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