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/...
Varchar fields can be of any size up to a limit, which varies by databases: an Oracle 9i database has a limit of 4000 bytes, a MySQL database has a limit of 65,535 bytes (for the entire row) and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has a limit of 8000 characters (unless varchar(max) is used, which has a maximum storage capacity of 2 gigabytes).