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Asked: 2026-05-22T16:27:02+00:00

Most often i work with cms but did not worked with sql directly too

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Most often i work with cms but did not worked with sql directly too much before. I am making a facebook page directory where i am saving page ids the length of facebook page id is 10-13 digit sometimes. So what types of int i should use. I am thinking about BIGINT but what should be the length of it ?

Here is the table visually. I would be glad if you can advice the length of the fields.Database Table

Here is the datatype and length i comeup with. But i am confused if these are efficient:

  1. ID: Database id for the pages (int 5)
  2. page_id: Facebook page id (bigint)
  3. page_name: Facebook page name (varchar 50)
  4. username: username of the page (varchar 50)
  5. likes: number of likes (int)
  6. Link: Link to the page (varchar 100)
  7. Time_added: current timestamp
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  1. Editorial Team

    Correct, you’ll need a BIGINT: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/numeric-types.html.

    I’d recommend longer lengths for your VARCHAR fields. It won’t hurt anything, and URLs in particular can get very long. I’d probably bump up the two 50-character fields to 100, and allow for 1,000 characters in the Link field.

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