Byte fields not handled properly

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Pegsneggle
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Byte fields not handled properly

Post by Pegsneggle »

A byte sized field in Access is unsigned and allows numbers between 0 and 255. When the transfer to mySQL takes place, the result is a signed tinyint(3). This has a range of -127 to +127 or thereabouts. So if any of the original data has a value between 128 and 255 it is rejected and data transfer for that table stops immediately.

I got round this by just importing the table structures, fixing the field problem, then importing the data. Can this be fixed?

Thanks