Is there any danger in making a column say, an INT with length of 3 digits and some of the columns only containing one or two?
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Is there any danger in making a column say, an INT with length of 3 digits and some of the columns only containing one or two?
An INT in Sql Server is 4 bytes so you won’t be able to do what you describe. The values can range from
-2,147,483,648to2,147,483,647If you only want to store numbers uf up to 3 digits, a
smallintwill suffice (2 bytes).