At 19:12 -0800 12/14/03, David Griffiths wrote:
>If an INT has a fixed range, then what is the point of giving it scale? As
>in, "int(12)".
That's not a scale. For integer types, it's a display width. It has
nothing to do with the allowable range of the underlying data type.
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Numeric_types.html
>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.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@stripped>
>To: "A Pasetti" <ajpasetti@stripped>
>Cc: <mysql@stripped>
>Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 6:48 PM
>Subject: Re: integer not being inserted correctly
>
>
>> In the last episode (Dec 14), A Pasetti said:
>> > When attempting to insert an integer into an integer column, a
>> > different value is being inserted for the given row. Check out the
>> > sql below to see what I mean. The integer 7819359281 is somehow
>> > changed to 2147483647 when it's inserted.
>> >
>> > Perhaps someone has experienced this problem and could suggest a fix.
>> > I'm using MySQL 4.0.
>>
>> Use a larger numeric type.
>>
>> http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Numeric_types.html
>>
>> Type Bytes From To
>>
>> TINYINT 1 -128 127
>> SMALLINT 2 -32768 32767
>> MEDIUMINT 3 -8388608 8388607
>> INT 4 -2147483648 2147483647
>> BIGINT 8 -9223372036854775808 9223372036854775807
>>
>> --
>> Dan Nelson
> > dnelson@stripped
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