Did you try unsigned int?

Bill Hess wrote:

> Hello all...
>
> What is the maximum value of an AUTO_INCREMENT field?  I am currently 
> running into a maximum value of 296,995,724 on Solaris 8 using MySQL 
> 3.23.42 - the field has been defined as an INT(11), which should be 
> able to handle a value bigger than what I am seeing - The DuBois MySQL 
> book states it should handle 2^31 which turns out to be 2,147,483,648
>
> Is there another setting specifc for AUTO_INCREMENT?
> If I changed the field's datatype to BIGINT would I be able to achieve 
> higher values?
> Does anyone out there have other techniques they use in place of 
> AUTO_INCREMENT?
>
> Please include my direct email when repsonding - Thanks...
>



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