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Asked: 2026-05-22T17:28:37+00:00

This MySQL table is generated by ActiveRecord. +——————–+————-+——+—–+———+—————-+ | Field | Type | Null

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This MySQL table is generated by ActiveRecord.

+--------------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| Field              | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra          |
+--------------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+
| id                 | int(11)     | NO   | PRI | NULL    | auto_increment |
| RecordType         | tinyint(4)  | YES  |     | NULL    |                |
| Location           | varchar(8)  | YES  |     | NULL    |                |

Please explain to me what is meant by tinyint(4) in the second column. According to MySQL documentation the size of tinyint is one bytes. But does this mean it takes actually 4 bytes to store this data. The code for generating the second column is like this.

t.column :RecordType, :integer, :limit => 1
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  1. Editorial Team

    It means it uses 1 byte for that data type, not 4 so therefore the range of possible numbers is smaller (-128 to 127 or 0 – 255 for unsigned or 2^8 if you will which is 1 byte).

    TINYINT(4) is the display length, so it means it’ll use four digits to represent the number.

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