Allison, founder of, states in his article “Free SAS!” that he easily read in and did statistical analysis on an 888 MB dataset, which had 414,000 cases and 674 variables. I haven’t been able to find much information about what this limitation is, but I did find some preliminary tests run by other SAS users. After doing some reading about the capabilities and possible limitations of SAS UE, the topic that keeps popping up is a possible dataset size limitation/processing capability problem. Since my most recent statistical programming course utilized SAS, I decided to give SAS University Edition (SAS UE) a shot.