Say I want to maintain a 6 digit ID column for a table in my database -is it possible to specify this at the DB level in MySQL?
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Say I want to maintain a 6 digit ID column for a table in my database -is it possible to specify this at the DB level in MySQL?
Use the MEDIUMINT data type, or more exact, MEDIUMINT(6):
As you are going to use it as an ID column, you most likely want to make it
UNSIGNED NOT NULL auto_increment.