David Griffiths wrote:
>If an INT has a fixed range, then what is the point of giving it scale? As
>in, "int(12)".
>
>In Oracle, a NUMBER(12) indicates how many digits you could have (in this
>case, 99999999999 would be the max value).
>
>Would an int(2) allow -99 to 99, or -2147483648 to 2147483647?
>
>Maybe MySQL should throw an error if someone tries to create an int(xyz)
>column that exceeds the size of an int?
>
>David.
>
>
We use the 'scale' ( or whatever it is ... the thing in brackets ) to
indicate to MySQL what size fields are in a fixed-width import.
See http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/LOAD_DATA.html ... look a bit more than
half-way down for 'fixed-row'.
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