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st: Why is in memory size different?
From
Nic Man <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Why is in memory size different?
Date
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:52:08 +1100
Hi everyone,
I am trying to figure out why the reported size is different for my Stata data files (same for a few other files that I tested, big and small). I am using Stata MP 12.1 on Windows.
. use T:\Stata\PIFH.dta
. desc, short
Contains data from T:\Stata\PIFH.dta
obs: 42,664
vars: 903 30 Aug 2013 09:12
size: 39,848,176
Sorted by:
. desc using T:\Stata\PIFH.dta , short
Contains data
obs: 42,664 30 Aug 2013 09:12
vars: 903
size: 40,018,832
Sorted by:
Regards,
Nicola
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