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st: Re: Large data sets


From   "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: Large data sets
Date   Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:13:48 -0400

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I don't know about a Spanish language version of the patch, but even without the patch you should be able to allocate about 900m to Stata under XP. How much physical memory do you have? Do you have lots of other programs running at the same time? You may want to reduce the number of programs that start up automatically and launch Stata with nothing else running to see if you can get to something close to 900m.

There's still a good chance that you will actually need more than 900m if you really need to use a 700m+ dataset. But you may be able to make the dataset smaller: Can you drop some variables? Could you compress some variables using value labels or smaller storage types or even using abbreviations in text strings? Can you drop some observations for some analyses? All of these options are worth exploring. Otherwise, you could switch to an OS that can allocate more memory than XP -- Mac, Linux, even Windows Vista can allocate more.

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- From: "Carmen Ponce" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 5:56 PM
Subject: st: Large data sets



Hi,
I need to work with large datasets (>700M, <2g), but Stata 9.2 does not
allow me to set memory above 500M (my computer should allow for up to 2g
memory setting).
I checked on Stata�s FAQs website
(http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/win/winmemory.html) and found out about
the hotfix patch 894472 that helps overcome this problem. I tried to execute
the hotfix patch from this website but got this message "Setup cannot update
Windows XP files because the language installed on your system is different
from the update language".
I tried to find a version in spanish (my system is set in spanish) but have
not succeded..
Does anyone know about a spanish version of this patch?

Thank you in advance,
Carmen
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