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Date:   Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:33:27 -0700
Reply-To:   George Chalissery <chalissery@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:   "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:   George Chalissery <chalissery@HOTMAIL.COM>
Organization:   http://groups.google.com/
Subject:   Estimating memory requirements for PROC SORT
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Hi,

I am trying to develop a macro that sets the SAS SORTSIZE= option to an optimum value (for my system) based on the size of the dataset to be sorted and the size of the sort key. Some time back I had come across the formula to determine the SORT memory requirements based on the observation length, number of observations and the size of the key.

Does anyone have this formula handy?

TIA,

George.

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