>Out of interest, how large are the datasets you work on?
>I'd say 16GBytes of memory was on the small size.
>Our desktops have 32GBytes, and I've run out of memory running customer test cases in the past.
>Our test servers typically have ~128GBytes.
Approx 9bn rows * 200 cols.   That wouldn't run locally but would run on the servers.   Locally - I've had 12m*250 cols running without too much trouble.
Cheers
R
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