Numeric value out of range: 1690 BIGINT UNSIGNED

Description

Recently when making some cleanup on a Magento based store that was having over 550K products and we encountered a mySQL error in the Magento administration pages when trying to mass delete products.  It also prevented any further products from being deleted.

The solution isn't too far...

Error message

SQLSTATE[22003]: Numeric value out of range: 1690 BIGINT UNSIGNED value is out of range in ‘(`YOURDB`.`q`.`items_count` – 1)’

Resolving the error

  1. Log into phpMyAdmin (or yyour prefered DBA tool)
  2. Do a backup (always do a backup first)
  3. Select the Magento database for your store
  4. Select the sales_flat_quote table
  5. Select the structure tab
  6. Select ‘change‘ on the ‘items_count‘ row
  7. Go to the drop-down list on the column named ‘Attributes‘ and change the value to the top option in the list, which is blank (no value), as opposed to the default selection ‘UNSIGNED‘ .
  8. Click save, and you're finished. You should now be able to delete your products without the error

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