I am creating a table with two columns. [User ID, Number of Points]
Number of Points has a max value of ~100 billion.
Would there be an issue storing Number of Points as an INT value? Or would it need to be a VARCHAR?
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I am creating a table with two columns. [User ID, Number of Points]
Number of Points has a max value of ~100 billion.
Would there be an issue storing Number of Points as an INT value? Or would it need to be a VARCHAR?
Use BIGINT, it will easily hold your range of values.
The maximum value unsigned is (2 ^ 64) – 1, or: 18,446,744,073,709,551,615.