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When I check my database, it’s showing negative records for a table (e.g. -200,000), other tables’ records are static.
When I view the table and go back to the summary, it changes randomly to -198,000, or -220,000… It’s just not static.
What could be happening?
This is an old question but one that I ran into and this post was the first thing to show up on google so I thought I would put the right answer up.
You’ll notice that all of the “negative mysql records” questions are with large tables or databases. This isn’t a negative sign its ~, which means approximately. It’s basically saying that there’s around that many records. As far as I can tell, it shows up once any table gets more than 20,000 records in it in phpMyAdmin. This is also why the askers numbers keep fluctuating, it’s not exact.