Is there a difference in using INT(1) vs TINYINT(1) in MySQL?

Question

I\'m under the assumption that INT(1) is the exact same thing as TINYINT(1) but I really have no idea. Whenever I\'ve had values that can only be a single integer (e.g. a va

Answer 1

The number in parentheses for integer column types is the "display width". This does not effect the storage requirements as they are pre-defined.

Further reading

• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/data-types.html
• http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/numeric-types.html