Hello. In my opinion it shouldn't because, according to the manual the value in brackets affects only the display characteristics of the fields. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/numeric-types.html
C.R.Vegelin wrote: > Hello All, > > More than once I read on this list that problems may occur, > because of unequal types and/or sizes of join fields. > Suppose a Countries table with primary key ID SmallInt(5), > and a Accounts table with CountryID SmallInt(4). > Does this have any negative affect, eg. on performance ? > By the way, I am using MyISAM tables for MySQL 5.0. > > Cor -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.NET http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Gleb Paharenko / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.NET <___/ www.mysql.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
