Careful with Numeric Data Types in MySQL
Posted on July 24th, 2008 by Greg Allard in MySQL | Comments
TINYINT can be set to length of 4, but that doesn’t mean the max value is 9999. A tiny int will always have the same range no matter what size you specify since that isn’t what it is for with integers. It is the display width for the command line output.
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