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MySQL year field: range too limited
In the MySQL database for one of my programming projects, I used a "YEAR(4)", because I wanted the column to contain four-digit year values. I discovered, though, that this type only allows values from 1901 to 2155, which is not workable as some year values are previous to the twentieth century. But I do not want a "DATE" type because the month and day are of no interest to me. What type should I convert to that would be the least radical change in data type, while giving more range?
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