Mysql int(11) number out of range

Question

I have a column which is set to int(20) when I try and insert a number like 622108120237, it says it\'s out of range. Why?

Answer 1

An int, with MySQL, is stored on 4 bytes, and, as such, can only contain values between -2147483648 and 2147483647.

622108120237 is greater than 2147483647 ; so it doesn't fit into an int -- looks like you are going to have to use a bigint.

See the Datatypes - Numeric types section of
the MySQL manual, about that.

Answer 2

The maximum value you can store in an signed integer is 2147483647 And unsigned int is 4294967295 in Both case you exceed the limit

Answer 3

See the MySQL Numeric Type Documentation. These things are well-documented.

The range for a signed INT is [-2147483648, 2147483647].

Note that in the case of INT(x), x is the "display width" and has nothing to do with the range or space requirements:

MySQL supports an extension for optionally specifying the display width of integer data types in parentheses following the base keyword for the type. For example, INT(4) specifies an INT with a display width of four digits ... display width does not constrain [or expand] the range of values that can be stored in the column.

Happy coding.