diff --git a/duckdb-latest/join-duckdb-latest.R b/duckdb-latest/join-duckdb-latest.R
index c461907e..75518d42 100755
--- a/duckdb-latest/join-duckdb-latest.R
+++ b/duckdb-latest/join-duckdb-latest.R
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ if (less_cores) {
   ncores = min(ncores, 40)
 }
 invisible(dbExecute(con, sprintf("PRAGMA THREADS=%d", ncores)))
-invisible(dbExecute(con, "SET memory_limit='200GB'"))
 git = dbGetQuery(con, "SELECT source_id FROM pragma_version()")[[1L]]
 
 invisible({
diff --git a/duckdb/join-duckdb.R b/duckdb/join-duckdb.R
index 7b933ba1..e5e02c5b 100755
--- a/duckdb/join-duckdb.R
+++ b/duckdb/join-duckdb.R
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ if (less_cores) {
 }
 
 invisible(dbExecute(con, sprintf("PRAGMA THREADS=%d", ncores)))
-invisible(dbExecute(con, "SET memory_limit='200GB'"))
 git = dbGetQuery(con, "SELECT source_id FROM pragma_version()")[[1L]]
 
 invisible({