MySQL Gurus,

I'm trying to figure out what the number after the type means for numbers.
I  noticed in someone's code that for the ID field they used bigint(20).
bigint I thought was fixed at 8 bytes. Does this override the size? 20
bytes??? 20 bits?

Thanks
John



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