
SQL Data types and SmallInt/TinyInt vs Regular Integer
Sep 25, 2017 · SmallInt/TinyInt vs Regular Integer. Smaller types take less space so more rows fit in a page resulting in less space taken both on disk and in memory. Of course, if you choose …
mysql - INT (5) vs SMALLINT (5): numbers in parenthesis after the ...
Jan 30, 2018 · An int and a smallint have different sizes and consequently ranges. The (5) is smallint(5) or int(5) is called a "Numeric Type Attribute" and it represents the "display width" of …
sql server - When to use TINYINT over INT? - Database …
If you know that some columns in a table that will have millions of row or even an little table that will FK'ed to multi-million-row that doesn't need an 4 bytes integer to store their data, but an 2 …
Are there any reasons to not use smallint when it fits the data?
Since PostgreSQL doesn't have 1-byte tinyint, the second best option would be smallint. However, I've read from various posts* that it may actually be slower because CPU's are …
sql server - char or smallint for a column with numeric codes ...
Oct 25, 2020 · The document says, smallint data type storage size is 2 Bytes and char(n) data type storage size is every character equal to 1 byte. char [ ( n ) ] Fixed-size string data. n …
sql server - storing as smallint, querying as int - Database ...
To save I/O, we're investigating whether it's practical to store these columns as smallint instead of int. But we're concerned about what problems might crop up from doing this, including: …
sql server - Convert SmallInt to Datetime - Database …
Please help me to convert the following values to datetime: DayLastAccessed -23569 -23789 -23629 -23564 -23732 0 0 The above column is smallint type in SQL Server. I'm using the …
Why am I getting an implicit conversion of Int / Smallint to Varchar ...
Jan 8, 2019 · Type conversion in expression (CONVERT_IMPLICIT(varchar(6),[ccd].[sessionseqnum],0)) may affect "CardinalityEstimate" …
MySQL - What exactly does smallint (2) permit? - Database ...
As others have pointed out, smallint(2) doesn't do what you think it does. In MySQL, the best way to guarantee two-digit numbers is to build a table, insert all the valid two-digit numbers, and set …
Find Underlying Data Type (int - integer) of Oracle Table instead of ...
May 6, 2013 · INT, INTEGER and SMALLINT are all mapped to the Oracle datatype NUMBER(38). Since that's what is stored in the dictionary, there's no way to recover the type …