Using integer types
The Small Business Administration through its local Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) provides advising and technical support for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Given the importance of having an online presence, the SBA is starting an initiative to help small businesses with e-commerce website development. You have been brought in to develop a database to store data on these development efforts. In this exercise, you will have the opportunity to use your knowledge of integer data types in PostgreSQL for defining a table for SBDC clients.
This exercise is part of the course
Creating PostgreSQL Databases
Exercise instructions
- Complete the definition of the
clienttable using the most appropriate integer type to support the range of possible data values for the column.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
-- Create the client table
___ ___ ___ (
-- Unique identifier column
id ___ PRIMARY KEY,
-- Name of the company
name VARCHAR(50),
-- Specify a text data type for variable length urls
site_url VARCHAR(50),
-- Number of employees (max of 1500 for small business)
num_employees ___,
-- Number of customers
num_customers ___
);