As others have said, it all depends on your OS, available memory, version of
Stata and so on. The answer to your question is: It depends... I have just
tried to drive up the size of the nlsw88 dataset by repeatedly -expand-ing
it
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sysuse nlsw88.dta, clear
expand 3800
d
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which easily took me to "size: 298,718,000" without any complaints from
Stata. I had -set mem 1G- beforehand. -des- returned that over 75% of the
memory were still free...
HTH
Martin
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