[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Antivirus

I have been looking at many hacks, and notice that some tables have their columns unsigned, and others dont. I know that when a column is unsigned, it starts counting at 0, as opposed to negatives... but is that simply all that should determine assigning a column as unsigned??? the fact that there is simply no need for negative intergers in my scripts?

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If you don't use negative number then it doubles the maximum value the column can hold, e.g. for a 2 byte integer, signed max = 32767, unsigned = 65535.