In the last episode (Jun 10), Mojtaba Faridzad said: > I defined a field as INT type but when I checked in phpMyAdmin, it showed > INT(11). Still I cannot enter higher 2147483647 (signed int) in this field. > Does 11 mean that MySQL needs 11 bytes to keep it? I changed the length to > 2 (for example) but still I could save higher values such as 999 in it!!! > What does length mean in INT(length)?
Display width. If you need to store a larger value, use a different integer type. http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Column_types.html -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
