Date:         Mon, 1 Dec 2008 23:03:42 -0200
Reply-To:     Paulo Rodrigo <rodrigo.paulo.sp@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Paulo Rodrigo <rodrigo.paulo.sp@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Failure while merging sorted runs
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Did you try to use tagsort option ?

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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:32 PM, FPAStatman <brentvtimothy@gmail.com> wrote:

> While doing a proc sort, I get the following error
>
> NOTE: There were 1500722 observations read form the data set
> user.table7
> ERROR: Failure while merging sorted runs from utility file 1 to final
> output.
> ERROR: Failure encountered during external sort.
> ERROR: Write to user.table7.data failed.  File is full and may be
> damaged.
> NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.
>
> I know that there is 5 gigs of unused memory allocated to user
> Does anyone know why this failed, and how I can fix it?
>
> Thank you.
>
> (command that failed: PROC SORT data=table7; by x; RUN;)
> (on windows XP, SAS version 9.2)
>