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What does "size" in int(size) of MySQL mean?

August 24th, 2007 by Alexander Kirk | Comments Comments Off

I was always wondering what the size of numeric columns in MySQL was. Forgive me if this is obvious to someone else. But for me the MySQL manual lacks a great deal in this field.
Usually you see something like int(11) in CREATE TABLE statements, but you can also change it to int(4).
So what does this [...]