I am trying to set a column as a 64-bit integer, but my only available options are tinyint, smallint and int. Where did bigint run off to?
Notes: I’m using Access 2008 to access my SQL Server.
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I am trying to set a column as a 64-bit integer, but my only available options are tinyint, smallint and int. Where did bigint run off to?
Notes: I’m using Access 2008 to access my SQL Server.
The problem is not with SQL Server. In SQL Server 2005, you can declare a column as bigint like so:
The problem is that MS Access does not recognize
bigintas a data type.Here’s an article on the problem which discusses some workarounds when using ADO. Here is help article from Microsoft which states that Access still does not recognize bigint (see the section on Comparison or mapping of data types between an Access database and Access project).