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MirLuie
Calcite | Level 5

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!

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MirLuie
Calcite | Level 5

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?

 

 

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

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.

MirLuie
Calcite | Level 5
Thanks! I am wondering how can this happend? I did not set a the max length to this extent..
Reeza
Super User
I'm guessing you never likely set it anywhere so it assumed a default somewhere.

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