http://www.escapekeys.com/blog A ColdFusion and Web Development Blog by Tom de Manincor en-us Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:03:51 -0400 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:46:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss blog@escapekeys.com blog@escapekeys.com http://www.escapekeys.com/blog/2010/6/2/MySQL-Madness-INTSIZE-what-is-it-good-for-Absolutely-Nothin Close to nothing, at least from what I have been able to find. The MySQL docs don't say much to persuade me otherwise. I found a great post <a href="http://alexander.kirk.at/2007/08/24/what-does-size-in-intsize-of-mysql-mean/">here</a>. It claims the only purpose for the SIZE on an INT field is to determine how many ZEROs to pad with when using ZEROFILL. So I ask, does anyone know if this is it? Is there more to it? I can't believe I didn't run into this earlier. I've never been a big fan of MySQL, for other reasons. But it seems to be pretty popular. Has to be more to it than just being FREE. MySQL Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:46:00 -0400 http://www.escapekeys.com/blog/2010/6/2/MySQL-Madness-INTSIZE-what-is-it-good-for-Absolutely-Nothin