All matter is made of atoms. Atoms are the smallest particle of matter. They are so small that you cannot see them with your eyes or even with a standard microscope. A standard sheet of paper is about a million atoms thick.
Answer Wiki. The int type is a 4-byte signed integer. There are also tinyint (1 byte), smallint (2 bytes), and bigint (8 bytes), and unsigned versions of all of these. As Apostolos mentioned, the docs for all the numeric types are here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/...
C.10.3 Limits on Table Size. The effective maximum table size for MySQL databases is usually determined by operating system constraints on file sizes, not by MySQL internal limits. For up-to-date information operating system file size limits, refer to the documentation specific to your operating system.