Maximum number of records in a MySQL database tabl

Question

What is the upper limit of records for MySQL database table. I'm wondering about autoincrement field. What would happen if I add milions of records? How to handle this kind of situations? Thx!

Answer 1

According to Scalability and Limits section in http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/features.html, MySQL support for large databases. They use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. Some users use MySQL Server with 200,000 tables and about 5,000,000,000 rows.

Answer 2

mysql int types can do quite a few rows: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/numeric-types.html

unsigned int largest value is 4,294,967,295
unsigned bigint largest value is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615