Monday, March 19, 2012

Data Overflow

Hi,

I would like to know if we can define an unsigned integer data type in SQL Server 2005. We have a situation where one of the integer columns will reach its 2 billion limit. I want to know if there's any way in which I can extend this to say 4 billion by making the data type unsigned or any other way which doesn't require me to change the data type to bigint.

Any help is highly appreciated.

TIA

Ritesh

Unfortunately, there isn't. If you are able to figure out a way to use the negative numbers then you may be OK, otherwise, it might be time for a bigint.

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