On Jun 21, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
>> Why doesn't this work: select CAST('20100101' as TinyInt) as nresult
>
> The tinyint type is 1 byte, which means a range of -127 to 128.
>
> http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/numeric-types.html
Also, CAST() only accepts a limited number of types:
• BINARY[(N)]
• CHAR[(N)]
• DATE
• DATETIME
• DECIMAL[(M[,D])]
• SIGNED [INTEGER]
• TIME
• UNSIGNED [INTEGER]
In your case, you probably want to use 'UNSIGNED' for your type.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/cast-functions.html#function_cast
-- Ed Leafe
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