WG: spss limit

[willers]

Hi,
That will be true. I think the reason is that SPSS stores the number of
cases in the file header. In our real life this theoretic limit is no
restriction, since other restrictions come first.
I know the limit-question from Excel-users. Therefore my short answer: 'No
worry!'
Best wishes
Reinhart Willers

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Lemon, John S. [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008 20:43
> An: Reinhart Willers; [hidden email]
> Betreff: RE: spss limit
>
> Has this changed then ?
>
> I always thought the limits was 1 less than the maximum number that could
> be stored on the machine / operating system and for PCs it was (2*10**32)-
> 1 or something like that
>
> Best Wishes
>
> John S. Lemon
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Reinhart Willers
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> >
> > does anyone know what the maximum number of cases an spss file can load?
> > thanks!
> No limit.
> Reinhart Willers
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[Sara House]

I'm not sure exactly what the limit is, but haven't run into it yet, and I've worked with datasets holding millions of cases (literally).
 
Sara
 
 
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