st: Re: Huge dataset

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

I've used bigger datasets than that.  As long as you have the RAM (or, more 
specifically, the OS will give you the ram), Stata can work with the file. 
Datasets larger than about 1.2G tend to become a problem if you work in any 
32 bit variant of Windows.

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mosca, Ilaria" <IMosca@ctg-zaio.nl>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:10 AM
Subject: st: Huge dataset



> Dear Statalisters,
>
> I have to deal with a huge dataset, which is composed of 4 variables
> only but about 16 million observations.
> The file is now stored as a Microsoft Access 2000 file. The question is:
> how can I import the file into Stata? Moreover, is Stata 9.0 able to
> deal with such file? In the "Getting started with Stata" manual I read
> that observations are limited only by computer memory, but still my
> doubt persists.
>
> Thank you,
> Ilaria
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